OpenEuphoria

Re: Hymem & DLL

• Posted by Filthy Jim McNasty <filthy-mcnasty at BIGFOOT.COM> Feb 14, 1999
• 503 views

Hi Grape,

Sorry. I didn't explain myself too well. I hardly ever boot from Drive A:,
but my BIOS has a choice of settings for which drive is Drive A: (CD-ROM, FD
or Zip - my Default A: is the Zip, but I can switch at boot if I alter my
BIOS settings on the way).

In OpenDOS, which I don't normally use, there is a utility called DEVLoad
which you can use to load/unload Device Drivers on the fly. You can download
OpenDOS (aka DR-DOS ... yup, still alive) from http://www.caldera.com/.
Also, under OpenDOS/DR-DOS you can use a `chain' command in config.sys to
run alternative configs. It doesn't support single multi-config config.sys
files so this is how they do it.

btw: Rearranged my fileshigh etc, but that *****! Windoze ignores high
settings anyway. However, I now have a few more bytes in a pure DOSBoot
session. I just had a look into my permanently 4DOSBox in Windows and I have
604,976 free BaseMem. Under pure DOS it's never less than 629,000. Am
looking at your suggestions and will tinker a bit more cos 629,000+ is still
not 629k, and if you can get 630k I've a way to go yet. Still, I reckon the
stuff 4DOS does is worth the couple of k basemem it uses (255 character
commandlines/pathlengths, more stuff than I've even begun to use yet). If
you program in real DOS, this is the DOS environment to use. Just rename
command.com to no.use and try it.

While I'm praising 4DOS, I forgot to say that previously mentioned SHSUCDX
(Sam Houston State University CD Extensions, alternative MSCDEX and more) is
(a) FREE (b) uses MUCH less memory than MSCDEX, so is double-plus good for
gamers.

Also if there's any Brits out there who would prefer 400byte UKKEYB to
7500byte KEYB UK (and no need for Keyboard.Sys) it can be found on the net
in various hidey-holes (Apricot Computers sites eg), but I have a slightly
later version which was customised for the original defuncy MJN Computers
(Not the present lot). Dunno if the copyright lives on, but it came to me
with an old 2nd-hand 486DX MJN, and I'll post an attachment if that's
acceptable and/or wanted).

You've saved me 3k+ Grape. Gimme, gimme, gimme and thanx 3times too.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Euphoria Programming for MS-DOS
> [mailto:EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU]On Behalf Of Grape Vine
> Sent: 1999 February 14 07:05
> To: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject: Re: Hymem & DLL
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