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                            DEVICEHIGH──Examples
 
The following CONFIG.SYS commands make the upper memory area available for
running device drivers and programs:
 
    device=c:\dos\himem.sys
    device=c:\dos\emm386.exe ram
    dos=umb
 
The following command directs MS-DOS to load a device driver named
MYDRIV.SYS into the upper memory area of an 80386 computer:
 
    devicehigh=mydriv.sys
 
The following CONFIG.SYS command directs MS-DOS to run the MOUSE.SYS driver
in the upper memory area and load the driver into upper memory block 2:
 
    devicehigh=/L:2 C:\drivers\mouse.sys
 
The following command loads the MYDRIV.SYS driver into region 1 of upper
memory, and also allows the driver to use region 3 if it needs to:
 
    devicehigh=/L:1;3 C:\util\mydriv.sys
 
The following command loads the same driver into upper memory regions 1 and
3, but only if each region is at least 30 bytes in size:
 
    devicehigh=/L:1,30;3,30 C:\util\mydriv.sys
 
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