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- Release Notes 1987 Oct 13
-
- This release of ALL CARD system software is the same as Release
- Version 4.0, except that one additional device driver has been
- included: $ALL.SYS. This device driver should be added to the
- CONFIG.SYS file used by PC-MOS/386. It allows you to use the
- advanced operating system, PC-MOS/386 on an IBM PC/XT system or
- 100% compatible. We have tested PC-MOS/386 on several clones with
- $ALL.SYS and the ALL CARD and have found that it does not work on
- some machines.
-
- To use PC-MOS/386 your CONFIG.SYS file must contain the following
- line:
- MEMDEV=$ALL.SYS /X
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- ALL/MOS 4.00
-
- This document gives a brief description of how to use this diskette.
- NEW 4.00 Features are outlined at the end of this document.
-
-
-
-
- How to Use This Diskette.
-
-
- Print a copy of this document. At the DOS prompt, type
- "COPY READ.ME PRN".
-
- Before doing anything else, prepare a bootable ALL/MOS system by following
- this procedure:
-
- 1) Format a blank disk, and install a system on it. To do this,
- at the DOS prompt, enter the command "FORMAT /S A:". The FORMAT
- command is found on the orignal DOS distribution diskette.
-
- 2) Copy COMMAND.COM from the original DOS distribution diskette to
- the new diskette. If you have a system with two floppy disks,
- put the DOS distribution disk in drive A; put the new diskette
- in drive B. At the DOS prompt, enter the command
- "COPY A:COMMAND.COM B:".
- If you have system with one floppy disk, put the original
- DOS distribution disk in drive A; at the DOS prompt, enter the
- command
- "COPY A:COMMAND.COM B:".
- When the system prompts you to "INSERT DISKETTE FOR DRIVE A",
- insert the DOS distribution diskette; when the system prompts
- you to "INSERT DISKETTE FOR DRIVE B", insert the new diskette.
-
- 3) Copy all the files from the original ALL/MOS System Diskette to
- the new diskette. If you have a system with two floppy disks,
- put the original ALL/MOS System Diskette in drive A, and the
- new diskette in drive B. At the DOS prompt, enter the command
- "COPY A:*.* B:"
- If you have a single disk system, put the original ALL/MOS
- System Diskette in the floppy drive. At the DOS prompt,
- type "COPY A:*.* B:". Insert the original ALL/MOS System
- Diskette when the system prompts you to "INSERT DISKETTE FOR
- DRIVE A", and insert the working diskette when the system
- prompts you to "INSERT DISKETTE FOR DRIVE B".
-
- 4) Save the orignal ALL/MOS System Diskette in a safe place.
- Use the working diskette from now on. If the working disk
- is accidentally damaged or destroyed, create a new working
- diskette by repeating this procedure.
-
- 5) Make a bootable copy of the ALL/MOS Utilities Disk using the
- procedure outline above with the ALL/MOS Utilities Disk.
-
- Run INSTALL.COM to find out how to install the ALL Card into your PC. The
- program is completely self-explanatory.
-
- SETUP.COM will install the ALL/MOS software onto your Boot Diskette, or
- fixed disk. SETUP will ask you which features of the ALL Card you intend
- to use. It will copy the programs which you will use onto your boot disk.
- Then SETUP will modify or create CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files so that
- your system will start up with the ALL/MOS software installed.
-
- If you are using Software Link's Multi-Link program, then instructions
- on how to use the ALL/MOS software with Multi-Link may be found in the
- file named MLINK.DOC.
-
- The ALL/MOS Software Reference Manual describes the software found on
- this diskette in more detail.
-
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-
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-
- New Features of ALL/MOS 4.0
-
-
- ALLDISK.SYS now takes the following parameters:
-
- DEVICE=ALLDISK.SYS [<size>] [/OPTIONS...]
-
- where <size> is the number of K of extended memory
- to use for the RAM disk
- OPTIONS:
- /B - set up the RAM disk in non-volatile memory
- (only if you have purchased the battery
- back-up option)
- /I - Initialize the RAM disk ALWAYS (even on
- warm boots)
- /S:nnn - Set the Sector Size to <nnn>, where nnn is one
- of 128, 256 or 512 (default is 512 bytes)
- /D:nn - Set the number of Directory entries in the
- root to <nn> (default is 64 entries)