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Info-IBMPC Digest           Thu, 25 Mar 93       Volume 93 : Issue  43

Today's Editor:
         Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain <[e-mail]>

Today's Topics:
                           Bug in DOS 5.0?
          Connecting two machines without a null modem cable
              emm386 Excludable memory region? (2 msgs)
                  emm386 uses more XMS than I expect
   How to make DOS commands always pause for confirmation? (2 msgs)
                            IBM Model 5150
                      Info-IBMPC Digest V93 #30
                     JDAC sound - problem solved
                                Linux
Looking for a device driver to route parallel/serial port to ethernet port
    Looking For Source Code (Shareware) to determine Config of PC
                               os/2 ftp
              Problems to maximizing memory usage, help.
             Setting up a printserver on an ethernet lan.
               Unloading drivers ->  QUESTION (2 msgs)
      Why can't I get LH to loadhigh (DOS5.0 obviously) (2 msgs)

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Date: 23 Feb 93 22:50:49 GMT
From: Jen Kilmer <[e-mail]>
Subject: Bug in DOS 5.0?

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Bruce Adler) writes:
>>It looks like the system is caching the floppy directory, but the only
>>thing in memory is command.com (if I boot off a clean floppy).
>
>I've got a very similar problem on one of my machines which runs
>DOS 3.3. I've found that typing Ctrl-C clears the cache. I used
>to think it might be a hardware problem with the DISK-CHANGE signal
>from the floppy drive but someone told me that DOS by default doesn't
>use that signal.

Well, original msdos didn't, but it does now (5) and did in 3.3...
I'm just not sure when the change happened.

You can specify whether msdos should use or not use the disk change
signal with the config.sys drivparm= command. Ie a 1.2M A drive with
no changeline would be

drivparm=/d:0 /f:1

and with changeline would be:

drivparm=/d:0 /f:1 /c

The codes for /d: and /f: are in the manual. BTW, since you mentioned 3.30
- there's a bug in io.sys' config.sys parser which makes it not recognize
the drivparm command. It was fixed in the 3.30a 'silent' rev, you can also
work around it. If drivparm= in config.sys causes a "invalid command in
config.sys" error while booting, add a ctrl-A or two after the "=". (I
kid you not, it's the silliest DOS bugfix I know :)  You can enter ctrl-A
characters into config.sys using edlin or edit - with edlin, do a ctrl-V
followed by an uppercase A (to enter a ctrl-c, follow ctrl-v with uppercase
C).  In edit, follow ctrl-p with ctrl-a.  Edit isn't in 3.3, of course,
but it will run in 3.3, and I realize not everyone knows edlin!

-jen


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Date: Wed Mar 03 10:57:42 EST 1993
From: cp486a![e-mail]
Subject: Connecting two machines without a null modem cable

Roger Denat <[e-mail]> writes:

>I have two computers which I would like to connect directly via modem.
>One computer has an external 14.4K .42bis modem on COM2 (Digicom
>Eagle+), the other has a plain vanilla 2400 baud internal modem, also
>on COM2.
>
>The question is: how do I get the two machines to talk (I have MS
>Kermit 3.11 and Telix 3.2 on both) if I simply connect the modems on
>each machine with a phone wire?  (I am connecting the cable to the
>"LINE" jack on each modem). I assume there is a sequence of AT commands
>I should be sending to each, but as of yet, I haven't been able to get
>them to talk.

I do not believe this is possible, because a telephone line is not just a
passive cable.  I am not familiar with the terminology, but you are dependent
on signals coming from the phone company to make it work.  If you hook two
telephones together directly, you will not be able to communicate.  (Of
course, that has the additional problem of not having any power to make the
phones work, but I believe the situation is still analagous.)

Ken Van Camp    <cp486a![e-mail]>

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Date: 25 Feb 93 00:26:11 GMT
From: "George H. Payne" <[e-mail]>
Subject: emm386 Excludable memory region?
Keywords: emm386

I know there is a memory region that emm386 excludes by default, that can
generally be included (maybe it thinks this is ems frame area or
something ?).  Can someone let me know what region this is?  If this is
included in a faq list, could you please point me at it?

Thanks very much,

George Payne
Uva Law Library
Email:  [e-mail]



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Date: 25 Feb 93 02:23:39 GMT
From: Ken Pataska <[e-mail]>
Subject: emm386 Excludable memory region?

Usually, EMM386.* Excludes:

A000 - C7FF - Video RAM, Video ROM BIOS, and Text Memory Areas

and

E000 - EFFF - Modern EMS 64k Page Frame

A few schools of thought :

To include the area, add I=E000-EFFF in the EMM line.

or

Mine -> DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE 2048 RAM FRAME=E000

which yields 2 meg of EMS for the games that still need it, puts the page
frame @ E000, leaving more contiguous UMB Ram for those device drivers.

Hope this helps...

Hope this helps... Captain Zilog...

-- Via DLG Pro v0.992



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Date: 26 Feb 93 18:38:58 GMT
From: Ken Gerke <[e-mail]>
Subject: emm386 uses more XMS than I expect


I noticed that when I let ems386 allocate some extended memory,
it allocates about 380k more than I expect it to and keeps it
unavailable.  IE. if I request 64k, it allocates about 440 k as
EMS and tells me that 64k is available.  Does is really need that
much?

Am I missing something?  The hardware is a 25Mhz 386 Packard Bell
with 4Mb RAM.  The setup allows me to map 256 either into XMS or
the High Memory Area.  Neither option seems to make a difference.
I have also tried using the Ram option and the l option(ie.
explicitly declare how much XMS should be available) with no
success.
--

Ken Gerke
Academic Computing Services
[phone] | [e-mail]



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Date: 24 Feb 93 15:17:18 GMT
From: Siming Zhan <[e-mail]>
Subject: How to make DOS commands always pause for confirmation?

How to make the dos (ver. 5.0) commands ALWAYS pause for confirmation
(ask you YES or NO before doing something REALLY stupid).

It happends to me several times already. When I tried to use wildcards "del *.*"
to delete files from a directory, I found out that I deleted wrong files
since I was not in the right directory (might be I was too tired). When I use
"copy dir1\*.* dir2", I just overwrite all files with the same names.
May be some of the erased ones are the most up-dated I have.
Dos commands work quietly without ask for confirmation (its default setting).

Of cause you can use "del *.* /p" (copy dir1\*.* dir2 /p)
to pause the command. But I always
forget to use "/p" (since I get used to UNIX).

Another way is to write a batch file. I do not want to use the name rm.bat
(cp.bat, etc.) since I have rm.exe (cp.exe, etc) already.
I can not use the name del.bat  since 'del' (or 'copy', etc.)
is built in dos and so the batch file del.bat will not be executed.

I think there must be a way to setup DOS variables to make dos command pause
for your confirmation but I do not know how
(may be to change something in autoexec.bat or config.sys).

May be my question is trivial but your suggestion is welcomed.

Thank you in advance.

Siming Zhan
--
_____________________________________________________________________
mail:  Siming Zhan, Dept C & O, Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3B9
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Date: 25 Feb 93 12:00:19 GMT
From: Jen Kilmer <[e-mail]>
Subject: How to make DOS commands always pause for confirmation?

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Siming Zhan) writes:
>Dos commands work quietly without ask for confirmation (its default setting).
>
>Of cause you can use "del *.* /p" (copy dir1\*.* dir2 /p)
>to pause the command. But I always
>forget to use "/p" (since I get used to UNIX).

If it's a command that has a "pause" option, like del & copy, I'd
suggest doing some macros. Like

doskey del=del $1 /p
doskey copy=copy /p $*

>Another way is to write a batch file. I do not want to use the name rm.bat
>(cp.bat, etc.) since I have rm.exe (cp.exe, etc) already.

If you want to substitute rm.exe for del, do -

doskey del=rm.exe $*

>I can not use the name del.bat  since 'del' (or 'copy', etc.)
>is built in dos and so the batch file del.bat will not be executed.

Yeah, that's why doskey macros are cool. Or if you really prefer
unix, probably some of the other unix-y folks on the net could
recommend a more unix-like shell to use instead of command.com.
Lots of people prefer 4DOS.  (Then there's the type that want
shell=win.com, but you don't see them much on the net :)

>I think there must be a way to setup DOS variables to make dos command pause
>for your confirmation but I do not know how
>(may be to change something in autoexec.bat or config.sys).

Not all of them...

-jen

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Date: 03 Mar 1993 21:24:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Wayde Nie, Eng.Phys. II" <[e-mail]>
Subject: IBM Model 5150

Hi,
    I was wonderinging if anyone could help me on this one.  A friend of
mine has been offered a second hand IBM Model 5150.  It apparently has 3.5
and 5.25 inch HD floppy drives, No HDD, runs at 60MHz (?!?) and comes with a
printer. (60 MHz sounds a LITTLE HIGH to me but thats what they said) I have
never heard of such a machine and said that I would ask about it over netland.

    If anyone has any experience with such a beast, I would appriciate
hearing for you.  Also, the people selling it are asking $400, does this sound
at all reasonable for the above package, or is my friend going to end up with
an expensive doorstop/paperweight on my advice?

            Thanks, in advance, for any help
                                       '''
                                      (o o)
==================================oOO==(_)==OOo================================
   Wayde Nie, Eng.Phys.
   McMaster University                      COS Law:
   CANADA                                     Thinly Sliced Cabbage.
   [e-mail]
===============================================================================

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Date: 3 Mar 93 18:27:26 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Ian B. Shef)
Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V93 #30


I am replying to the following article:

>Date: Mon, 15 Feb 93 16:12:48 EST
>Subject: Cross-compiler for R3000
>Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
>Originator: [e-mail]
>
>I'm trying to find out if there is a public domain cross-compiler
>for the IBM PC as host to a MIPS R3000 processor as target.

Contact IDT (Integrated Device Technology... they have an R3000 cross-
compiler hosted on a PC (also one for the MAC).

IDT7RS903 runs on 80286 and 80386 machines under MS-DOS or XENIX.
This part number will have various suffixes depending on machine type,
operating system, library options, and media.

IDT corporate headquarters ca be reached at 408-727-6116  .
Call and ask for the number of your local sales office.


--
Ian Shef  262/C58             [e-mail] or [e-mail]
Hughes Missile Systems Co.    uucp: ...!usc!hacgate!ipla01!shef (maybe?)
P.O. Box 7928                 phone: [phone]
Canoga Park, CA 91309-7928    Any opinions expressed are author's own.

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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 93 14:58:04 EST
From: BRIAN HOBBS <[e-mail]>
Subject: JDAC sound - problem solved

I solved the problem that I was having with my JDAC player program.

Thanks for the replies. - I've found the solution. it appears to
have been a simple typo that caused my grief. I was trying to making
a loop to step through 64K of the file, (ie FFFF), however I typed FFF
by mistake. That meant that I was only running through the first 4KB
of my sound file rather than 64KB.

 The delay NOP delay loop count was a 'trial and error' kinda thing, so,
before I fixed my above problem I was assuming that the short duration
of play was due to a timing loop value being too small. So I made it
bigger (650 hex)  This was of course WAY too big. It should be about
(110 hex) - at least on my machine.

So after fixing those two problems, it works fine.

As for latching the output, YES - it is done automatically. I pulled out
a voltmeter and checked the port. If you issue an OUT instruction,
to the printer port, the data is held on the output pins until the
next OUT to that port is executed.

To make the code 'machine speed independant' I'm working on code to
use the PC's interupt timer. First I need to re-vector the timer
interupt. It is also necessary to speed up the timer, so I
have to reprogram the clock tick rate to a much faster rate. To keep
the time of day from going into warp drive, I need to have the
revectored timer interupt code count off X number of clock
ticks before calling the old interupt. That should work. I read that
BASIC uses this technique when playing music.

When I get that done, I still need to figure out how to access
EXTENDED MEMORY and how to make sure that it is not in use by
another program ie SMARTDRV, or a RAM disk. For that matter I
don't even know how to allocate conventional memory in assembly.

So - I have some work to do still.  Any advice?


             HERE IS THE OLD CODE ONCE AGAIN WITH ERRORS COMMENTED
;---------------------------------------------------------------------
Play64k:
        mov  si,offset Buffer     ;Point to file data buffer
L1:     lodsb                     ;Get byte and inc SI
        mov  dx,0378h
        out  dx,al                ;Output to LPT1 port

        mov  cx,650h              ;delay   <---- [ SHOULD BE ABOUT 110h ]
Delay:  nop
        nop
        loop Delay

        cmp  si,0FFFh       <---------------[ OOPS should be FFFF !!!!! ]
        jne  L1
        ret
;------------------------

                                             -Brian   .__+__.

                                             [e-mail]


P.S. For those who are interested in JDAC
     player programs they're available
     on SIMTEL20 with schematics for
     the JDAC device. Just download:
     <MSDOS.SOUND>PLAYBWC.ZIP   (to play .SND .VOC or .WAV files)
     <MSDOS.SOUND>MP219B.ZIP    (to play AMIGA  .MOD files)

     Both programs support the JDAC device as well as Soundblaster,
     they even support the PCs internal speaker!


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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 18:20 EDT
From: "Let the madness, begin..." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Linux

Does anyone know of any BBS that has most, if not all, of the Linux files
including X Windows?  I do not have access to Internet, so I need to find
another way of getting Linux.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance


[e-mail]

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Date: 25 Feb 93 21:14:11 GMT
From: "H. Sumargo" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Looking for a device driver to route parallel/serial port to ethernet port

I have a couple of PCs that are attached to our network using Western Digital ethernet
card and would like to be able to print directly to the network printer.  I am thinking
that may be to find a device driver that will route the parallel port to the ethernet
port so that every print job to the parallel port will be routed to the network printer.
Could someone please response to me at [e-mail].  Thank you very much in advanced.



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Date: 22 Feb 93 21:17:32 GMT
From: Tony Alicea <[e-mail]>
Subject: Looking For Source Code (Shareware) to determine Config of PC

Hi!

     I am looking for shareware source code to run under MSDOS,
of a program that will tell me how a PC is configured. That is,
it should "figure out" by itself what hard drive the PC's got,
what type of monitor, floppy drives, processor (I'll use it on
386s).

     The key word here is *source* code.

     I will appreciate any responses, preferably via e-mail.

Thanks,

Tony Alicea           | [e-mail]
Aeronautical Radio    |
Annapolis             |



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Date: Wed Mar 03 11:51:31 GMT 1993
From: Mike O'Carroll <[e-mail]>
Subject: os/2 ftp


I have os/2 2.0 (actually 2.1B) on a PS/2 with a 3C523 Ethernet card.  There
appear to be drivers with the OS/2.  What do I need to run ftp - is
there such a beast?

--
Mike O'Carroll, Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering,
        The University, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
E-mail: [e-mail][.ac.uk]
UUCP:   ...uunet!mcsun!uknet!lena!mike

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Date: 24 Feb 93 15:14:23 GMT
From: Siming Zhan <[e-mail]>
Subject: Problems to maximizing memory usage, help.

When I run some programs which can use all kinds of memories
(e.g., LaTeX, a desktop publishing utility),
they are very slow in my machine. When I run those programs,
there are A LOT of writting and reading activities to hard disk.
It sounds to me that I do not have enough memories!! Even I do not
load any other TSR programs (sometime I load a TSR program
which occupies 100k bytes of memory).   When I run some other
programs (I do not know whether they can use all kinds of memories),
they collapse very often due to the lack of memory. Can somebody
tell me how to manage the memory?  I include all data which
obtained by running DOS's mem.exe and by running Norton's SI.exe. At the end,
I also include AUTOEXEC.bat and CONFIG.sys files.
Any suggestions are welcomed!

I have an i386 dx25 with 4 mb of extended memory (run dos 5.0).
In my CMOS SETUP, it shows the following figures:

        Base memory:            640 kb
        ext. mem:               3072 kb
        Video BIOS Shadow:      Enabled
        Scratch RAM opt:        1
        Main BIOS Shadow:       Enabled
        Memory Relocation:      Enabled
        AT Clock Stretch:       Disabled


*******by run mem without any TSRs loaded ***********************
    655360 bytes total conventional memory
    655360 bytes available to MS-DOS
    534448 largest executable program size

    655360 bytes total EMS memory
    262144 bytes free EMS memory

   3145728 bytes total contiguous extended memory
         0 bytes available contiguous extended memory
   1622016 bytes available XMS memory
           MS-DOS resident in High Memory Area
*******************************************************************

********** chkdsk ******   no TSR loaded   ************************

Volume MS-DOS_5    created 09-09-1991 12:01p
Volume Serial Number is 1A4A-17D9

 105629696 bytes total disk space
     73728 bytes in 2 hidden files
    237568 bytes in 95 directories
  98551808 bytes in 2970 user files
   6766592 bytes available on disk

      2048 bytes in each allocation unit
     51577 total allocation units on disk
      3304 available allocation units on disk

    655360 total bytes memory
    589344 bytes free
**********************************************************************

**********By run Norton's si.exe ( system Info)********************


                             **********************
                             *   Memory Summary   *
                             **********************

              --------------------- DOS Usage ---------------------
             DOS reports 640 K-bytes of memory:
                 64 K-bytes used by DOS and resident programs
                576 K-bytes available for application programs

               --------------------- Overall ---------------------
             A search for active memory finds:
                640 K-bytes main memory      (at hex 00000-0A000)
                 32 K-bytes display memory   (at hex 0B800-0C000)
              3,328 K-bytes extended memory  (at hex 10000-44000)
                640 K-bytes expanded memory

           --------------------- BIOS Extensions ---------------------
             ROM-BIOS Extensions are found at hex paragraphs:
             C000 F000


                              ********************
                              *   TSR Programs   *
                              ********************

          Address   Size  Owner                Hooked Interrupt Vectors
          -------------------------------------------------------------------
           0008   16,032  DOS System Area      00 01 02 03 04 08 09 0A 0B ...
           0640    3,392  COMMAND.COM          22 24 2E
           0741   26,768  Unknown owner        09 13 15 19 21 25 26 28 2F ...
           0DF2    8,864  MOUSE.COM            08 0C 10
           101E  589,936  Free memory


                            *************************
                            *   DOS Memory Blocks   *
                            *************************

           0253   15,968  DOS System Area        Data
           063A       64  DOS System Area        Data
           063F    2,368  COMMAND.COM            Program
           06D4       64  Free memory
           06D9    1,024  COMMAND.COM            Environment
           071A      592  Free memory
           0740   26,768  Unknown owner          Program
           0DCA      608  MOUSE.COM              Environment
           0DF1    8,256  MOUSE.COM              Program
           0FF6      608  Free memory
           101D  157,760  Free memory
           36A2  431,568  Free memory

*********************   end of Norton's System Info **************************

**************   AUTOEXEC.BAT ************************************************

rem SET BGFT=C:\BGFT300
rem loadhigh C:\BGFT300\BGFTHDZM.COM
SET GMK4=C:\G4\
@ECHO OFF
PROMPT $p$g
path c:\bt;c:\dos;c:\windows;c:\emtex;c:\bin;c:\nt;c:\gs;c:\lib;c:\pcplus;c:\prc;c:\sp;c:\g4;c:\modem;c:\art;c:\ed;c:\bgft300;c:\mouse
rem C:\DOS\APPEND /E
rem C:\DOS\APPEND C:\DOS;

    set texinput=c:\emtex\texinput
    set tfm=c:\emtex\tfm
    set texfmt=c:\emtex\texfmts
    set btexfmt=c:\emtex\btexfmts
    set textfm=c:\emtex\tfm
    set bibinput=c:\emtex\bibinput
    set mfinput=c:\emtex\mfinput
    set mfbas=c:\emtex\mfbases
    set bmfbas=c:\emtex\bmfbases
    set mfjob=c:\emtex\mfjob
        set dvidrvinput=c:\emtex;c:\emtex\doc
        set dvidrvfonts=c:\texfonts
        set dvidrvgraph=c:\emtex\doc;c:\emtex\doc\gr$r;

loadhigh C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE
set COMSPEC=C:\COMMAND.COM
VERIFY ON
SET TEMP=C:\TMP
SET TMP=C:\TMP
SET TERM=ansi
rem SET TERM=C:\tvga\tansi
loadhigh c:\mouse\mouse.com
rem vshield /swap
**************************    end of autoexec.bat    *****************

**************************      beginning of CONFIG.SYS  ****************

devicehigh=c:\dos\setver.exe
files=32
break=on
buffers=32
STACKS=9,256
devicehigh=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS /machine:1
devicehigh=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE
devicehigh=c:\tvga\tansi.sys

rem DEVICE=C:\tvga\tvgabio.sys

shell=c:\dos\command.com c:\dos\ /e:1024 /p
rem  install=c:\dos\fastopen.exe c:=(50,25)
dos=high,UMB
rem device=C:\WINDOWS\ega.sys
rem devicehigh=c:\dos\ega.sys
**************************************************************************

Thank you very much in advance.

Yours,

Siming Zhan
--
_____________________________________________________________________
mail:  Siming Zhan, Dept C & O, Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3B9
email: [e-mail]   OR       [e-mail]
phone: [phone] ex      (office),         [phone] (home)



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Date: 25 Feb 93 00:05:30 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Setting up a printserver on an ethernet lan.

I'm about to install a new LaserJet 4M on our ethernet lan and I
am interested in using a pc running ms-dos and windows 3.1 as a
printserver so that our Unix boxes can print to it. Is there any
special router or software package that I would need in order to
do this? And if so, is there anything that is in the Public Domain?

I'd appreciate e-mail at [e-mail].

Thanks in advance,

-Jorge

--

*****************************************************************************
*Jorge A. Castellano Jr.               |  "Yo vengo de todas partes y hacia *
*Electrical & Computer Engineering     |   todas partes voy. Arte soy entre *
*Florida International University      |   las artes y en los montes, monte *
*[e-mail]                  |   soy."                            *
*                                      |               -El Apostol          *
*****************************************************************************



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Date: 24 Feb 93 00:07:39 GMT
From: Groucho <[e-mail]>
Subject: Unloading drivers ->  QUESTION

I am loading a set of Novell-Lite drivers for a WD 8013B ethernet
card by using LOADHIGH <driver_name>.  I would like to free up
the ethernet card for use by other applications (ie: ncsa telnet)
with out pushing "reset".

So then, how do I unload drivers that have been loaded?  (I'm sure
everyone can tell, I'm not a DOS-guru :-)

e-mail or replys to this newsgroup.  Thanx.

Christopher Perez - [e-mail]
    - Director Engineering Development, Triage Corp, Portland, OR -



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Date: 24 Feb 93 13:36:59 GMT
From: "C. Stratford" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Unloading drivers ->  QUESTION

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Groucho) writes:

>I am loading a set of Novell-Lite drivers for a WD 8013B ethernet
>card by using LOADHIGH <driver_name>.  I would like to free up
>the ethernet card for use by other applications (ie: ncsa telnet)
>with out pushing "reset".

>So then, how do I unload drivers that have been loaded?  (I'm sure
>everyone can tell, I'm not a DOS-guru :-)

You could try using LOADSYS to load and unload the driver.  It was written
for just that purpose.  I think it's on some of the main archive sites (as
LOAD14.EXE probably), but if not, it's on bolivia.cc.rl.ac.uk (in pub/utils/
loadsys.)

    Chris.
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | All that is gold does not glitter  | Chris Stratford                     |
 | Not all those who wander are lost. | [e-mail]                   |
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------



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Date: 25 Feb 93 03:58:24 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Why can't I get LH to loadhigh (DOS5.0 obviously)

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Hans Lindberg) writes:
> Hi there!
> I'm sorry if the answer to my question is extremely obvious. What i wonder
> is why loadhigh (lh) in dos 5.0 doesn't work on my computer. I have a
> 386sx with 2Megs and AMI bios. When I try lh <anyprogram> it simply loads
> it in the conventional mem. What's wrong? Mem reports 1M something
> available contigous extended mem, but it's never used by lh...
>


   Make sure that your config.sys file looks something like this;

   DEVICE=EMM386.EXE RAM
   DOS=HIGH,UMB


   Then, no problems.


Greg.



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Date: 26 Feb 93 11:11:53 GMT
From: ME BULLIVANT <[e-mail]>
Subject: Why can't I get LH to loadhigh (DOS5.0 obviously)

Hans Lindberg ([e-mail]) wrote:
: Hi there!
: I'm sorry if the answer to my question is extremely obvious. What i wonder
: is why loadhigh (lh) in dos 5.0 doesn't work on my computer. I have a
: 386sx with 2Megs and AMI bios. When I try lh <anyprogram> it simply loads
: it in the conventional mem. What's wrong? Mem reports 1M something
: available contigous extended mem, but it's never used by lh...

Try:

Add "UMB" to your "DOS =" statement.

Run EMM386.EXE from your Config.Sys (under HiMem.Sys)



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