"out of far memory" WHAT ???

[shoesup]

While trying to clean a virus from my P-II, 233, Win 98 desktop computer, I restarted and went to the DOS prompt and typed in:

edit config.sys

The error message I received was:

"out of far memory"

Therefore, I was not able to edit any of my DOS or Windows based files.

What in the &*$@ is far memory ???

Please help. Thank you.

[Cricket]

Hi G.W. Kremer,

Sorry, don't know what "far" memory is, but it might be better to make a boot disk to work from that is write protected instead of booting to a boot menu and then going to the DOS prompt.

What virus are you dealing with?

:) Cricket

[glc]

You might want to boot into Windows safe mode and use sysedit or msconfig if you are having a memory management issue at the DOS level.