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Re: Hymem & DLL

• Posted by Grape Vine <chat_town at HOTMAIL.COM> Feb 14, 1999
• 473 views

Ill post a copy of my config.sys and auto.bat once i find the
disk...been to long since i needed it...Thanx for the link to DR DOS..i
use its fdisk cuz it puts the boot sector on the inside track and not
the out like ms dos..boots faster...95 hates tho...i have a few DOS only
computers siting doing nothing..is there a link to 4DOS?...Ever see a
computer run with out a HD??...

Grape

Grape

>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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