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ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. Introduction ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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OS/2 2.x CONFIG.SYS FILE DESCRIPTION - Version 7 - October 17, 1993
Compiled by Rick Meigs, 7032 SW 26th Street, Portland, OR., 97219
(INF conversion by Don Parr, 3606 Mapleleaf Drive, Riverside, CA., 92503)
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Copyright (c) 1992-94 by Rick Meigs. If you find errors or have some helpful
information, please do contact me at the address above. I also hang around the
FidoNet OS/2 conference, so you can drop me a note there also.
<<=ENCOURAGEMENT=>> This INF file may be freely distributed (AND YOU'RE
ENCOURAGED TO DO SO) on a not-for-profit basis, but the copyright notice may
not be removed nor may the file be modified.
VIEWING FILE: From the WpS double click on OS2CNFG7.INF. From an OS/2 window
or full screen session, type VIEW OS2CNFG7.
PRINTING FILE: Select PRINT.
CONTENTS:
1. Caution, warning and disclaimer.
2. Initial comments.
3. CONFIG.SYS file description.
4. Obscure CONFIG.SYS settings.
5. Sample CONFIG.SYS files.
6. How to restore a damaged CONFIG.SYS file from a backup copy.
7. REXX support from within the CONFIG.SYS file.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2. Caution, Warning and disclaimer ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
<<=CAUTION=>> Because of the way in which OS/2s Enhanced PM Editor (EPM.EXE)
handles word wrapping, using it to edit your CONFIG.SYS file is unwise. Best
results are obtained using OS/2s System Editor (E.EXE).
<<=WARNING=>> IF YOU PLAN ON CHANGING ANY LINE IN YOUR CURRENT CONFIG.SYS
FILE, PLEASE BE SURE TO CREATE A BACKUP --BEFORE-- YOU START EXPERIMENTING!
THIS HAS SAVED ME MORE THAN ONCE. MAKING A BACKUP COPY WILL DO YOU NO GOOD IF
YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO RESTORE A DAMAGED CONFIG.SYS FILE WITH THE BACKUP. I HAVE
INCLUDED THE PROCEDURE AT THE END OF THIS FILE.
<<=REQUIRED READING=>> I CAN'T BE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT YOU DO WITH YOUR SYSTEM
OR YOUR CONFIG.SYS FILE BASED UPON WHAT YOU MAY LEARN FROM THE INFORMATION
PROVIDED IN THIS FILE. EVERY EFFORT HAS BEEN MADE TO MAKE THIS FILE AS ACCURATE
AS POSSIBLE, BUT NO WARRANTY OR FITNESS IS IMPLIED. THE INFORMATION IS PROVIDED
ON AN "AS IS" BASIS.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3. Initial Comments ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
This project has become something more than I had anticipated when I first
released version one during the summer of 1992. Now in its seventh version and
I'm still finding out new things about OS/2s CONFIG.SYS file. Actually, this
CONFIG.SYS FILE DESCRIPTION has become as much an optimization "handbook" as it
is a description. I assume that someday, all that can be said about the
CONFIG.SYS file will have been said. At that point I'll be able to sit back and
just let the last update circulate<g>.
Even with all the hours I've put into this CONFIG.SYS FILE DESCRIPTION, I
still find it often to be a mystery. At least one attempt to "demystify" the
file has been made by a major computer rag during 1992, but I found myself more
"mystified" than "demystified." Some of the information shared was just plain
wrong. Still, mystery or not, to get the most out of OS/2 and your system, you
MUST spend a little time editing your CONFIG.SYS file.
This whole process started in 1992 when I began researching what many of the
CONFIG.SYS file commands were for. This ever growing file is the result of that
ongoing research. It briefly describes most of the common and some of the more
obscure commands. Naturally, not all possible commands are listed (especially
the many hardware device drivers), but there is a lot here for you to work
with. Version 6 was updated for OS/2 2.1.
Unlike the DOS CONFIG.SYS file which is read sequentially, OS/2 reads the
entire CONFIG.SYS file before it invokes the commands listed. Therefore, except
for a few exceptions which have been noted, it really doesn't matter where a
command is placed.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4. CONFIG.SYS FILE DESCRIPTION ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
CALL=C:\OS2\XCOPY.EXE C:\OS2\*.BK1 C:\OS2\*.BK2
CALL=C:\OS2\XCOPY.EXE C:\OS2\*.INI C:\OS2\*.BK1
Two files are essential to the operation of OS/2: OS2.INI and OS2SYS.INI. If
these files should get trashed, OS/2 isn't going to function. Backing them up
is very important. In OS/2 version 2.0, once booted, OS/2 will not let you
access or copy these critical files. One way to circumvent this is to create
your backups BEFORE OS/2 is booted. This CALL will do the trick. It creates
first a backup of your backup and then creates a backup of the original files.
This gives you a two generation backup. This process will add time to your
system boot.
Generally OS/2 does not care where you place something in the CONFIG.SYS file.
This CALL is an exception in version 2.0. It must appear as the first line as
shown here because you need to complete this backup process before OS2.INI AND
OS2SYS.INI load.
<<=NOTE=>> In version 2.1, the INI files can be copied using the normal OS/2
COPY command, but you may wish to consider adding this CALL to your CONFIG.SYS
file to automate the process.
<<=TIP=>> OS2.INI and OS2SYS.INI can also be reconstructed at boot by holding
down Alt-F1 during boot BEFORE the OS/2 logo appears. You may need to hold the
keys down for at least 20 seconds. During your initial installation of OS/2,
the installation process stored a copy of its original INI files in the folder
called INSTALL. When you press Alt-F1 at boot , OS/2 moves these "backup" files
into the OS/2 folder to replace the current versions.
<<=WARNING=>> Use the Alt-F1 key combination as a last resort because you will
lose all customization and changes you have made to the WpS.
<<=TIP=>> Add the following additional line, CALL C:\OS2\XCOPY.EXE C:\OS2\*.BK2
C:\OS2\INSTALL\*.INI, before the first CALL above. This will replace the INI
files in the INSTALL folder with a more recent version. So when you have to use
Alt-F1, you'll reboot without losing most of your WpS customizations.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.1. IFS=C:\OS2\HPFS.IFS /CACHE:512 /CRECL:4 /AUTOCHECK:C ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
IFS stands for "Installable File System." This OS/2 command installs the High
Performance File System (HPFS), if you want to use it instead of FAT. The
syntax is IFS=DRIVE:PATH\FILENAME, SWITCHES. There are three switches:
/CACHE:nnn sets up a disk cache and its size. The default on my 8MB system
(shown in the table below) is too low in my opinion. If you have 8MB of RAM,
set the cache to 512, but keep in mind that you don't want an excessive cache
because the memory used comes directly out of memory available for programs,
e.g. if you set a 2MB cache on a 6MB system, you will notice a substantial
negative performance hit. OS/2s Command Reference and other IBM sources
indicate that the maximum cache size for HPFS is currently 2MB, but IBM does
not recommend using a cache larger than 1.5MB.
If this switch is omitted, the default will be 10% of available RAM.
If you have formatted your system with only HPFS partitions, the cache size in
this statement, as set by OS/2 during installation, is that noted under ONE
FILE SYSTEM in the table below. If you have both FAT and HPFS partitions, then
OS/2 2.x set the cache sizes to those noted under TWO FILE SYSTEM. The file
system which uses the greatest amount of your disk space gets the larger value.
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/CRECL sets the maximum record size for caching, from 2k to 64k in multiples
of 2k with a default of 4k; and,
/AUTOCHECK:nn tells the system to run CHKDSK and sets the drives to be checked
at startup.
<<=TIP=>> If you are using only FAT partitions, then you should REM this
statement and save yourself about 500k of RAM.
<<=TIP=>> If you have drive partitions larger than 80 or so megabytes, then
HPFS will give you better performance than FAT. On partitions of less than
80MB, most authorities indicate that there is only a small performance
difference between HPFS and FAT.
<<=NOTE=>> Lazy write is on by default. If you want Lazy write off, see the
RUN=C:\OS2\CACHE.EXE command.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.2. PAUSEONERROR=YES ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
This OS/2 only command tells OS/2 to stop for a moment if it cannot process a
line in the CONFIG.SYS file correctly. If you don't include this statement in
your CONFIG.SYS file, the default will be YES. It is generally the best choice
since an error message will appear and scroll off the screen so quickly with a
NO setting that you may not notice it or be able to read it.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.3. PROTSHELL=C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
This OS/2 command loads OS/2s user interface program (PMSHELL.EXE) which allows
you to make full-screen and window sessions work. The current interface program
is the Workplace Shell (WpS), but in theory you could purchase or develope your
own user interface and use it instead of the WpS, much like Norton's Desktop is
available for the Windows environment. If you delete this line from your
CONFIG.SYS file, OS/2 will load CMD.EXE by default.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.4. SET COMMAND ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The SET command in the CONFIG.SYS file sets up environment variables for the
entire system. These environmental variables are stored by OS/2 in memory and
are shared by any applications which calls on them. There are a number of of
these "environmental variables" covered below.
<<=NOTE=>> These variables can also generally be changed at an OS/2 command
prompt.
<<=TIP=>> If you want to see what variables are set in your system, at an OS/2
command prompt type the word SET and press return. You'll get a list like the
following:
WP_OBJHANDLE=87103
USER_INI=C:\OS2\OS2.INI
SYSTEM_INI=C:\OS2\OS2SYS.INI
OS2_SHELL=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE
AUTOSTART=PROGRAMS,TASKLIST,FOLDERS
RUNWORKPLACE=C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE
COMSPEC=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE
PATH=C:\OS2;C:\OS2\SYSTEM;C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2;C:\OS2\INSTALL;
C:\;C:\OS2\MDOS;
DPATH=C:\OS2;C:\OS2\SYSTEM;C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2;C:\OS2\INSTALL;
C:\;C:\OS2\BITMAP;
PROMPT=$E[1;33m[$P]$G
HELP=C:\OS2\HELP;C:\OS2\HELP\TUTORIAL;
GLOSSARY=C:\OS2\HELP\GLOSS;
DIRCMD=/ON /P
IPF_KEYS=SBCS
KEYS=OFF
BOOKSHELF=C:\OS2\BOOK
EPMPATH=C:\OS2\APPS;
VIDEO_DEVICES=VIO_SVGA
VIO_SVGA=DEVICE(BVHVGA,BVHSVGA)
WORKPLACE_PROCESS=NO
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.5. SET USER_INI=C:\OS2\OS2.INI ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Tells OS/2 the name and locations of the file that contains your desktop setup
information and the options saved from various OS/2 applications. OS2.INI is
the default file name.
This file remains open the entire time OS/2 is booted and operating. It only
closes upon Shutdown. If it should become "trashed," MAKEINI.EXE, which ships
with OS/2 and is in the OS/2 directory, can be used to build a new set of INI
files. You will have to boot from an OS/2 floppy to do so.
<<=NOTE=>> OS2.INI is a critical file for the proper operation of OS/2 and
should not be deleted or modified. It is not an ASCII file and, if it should
become damaged, cannot be modified with an ASCII editor. You should consider
backing up this file by using the CALL lines shown above or with a program such
as WPSBKUP. It is one of several shareware programs designed for this purpose.
Check your favorite OS/2 BBS.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.6. SET SYSTEM_INI=C:\OS2\OS2SYS.INI ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Tells OS/2 the name and location of its INI file (OS2SYS.INI). OS2SYS.INI tells
OS/2 what kind of equipment your system uses.
<<=NOTE=>> OS2SYS.INI is a critical file and should not be deleted or modified.
It is not an ASCII file and can't be edited. You should consider backing up
this file by using the CALL line shown as the first line above or with a
program such as WPSBKUP, a shareware program you can obtain on many OS/2 BBSs.
This file remains open the entire time OS/2 is booted and operating. It only
closes upon Shutdown. If it should become "trashed," MAKEINI.EXE, which ships
with OS/2 and is in the OS/2 directory, can be used to build a new set of INI
files. You will have to boot from an OS/2 floppy to do so.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.7. SET OS2_SHELL=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
OS2_SHELL directs OS/2 to load the command-line shell (CMD.EXE) when you ask
for an OS/2 command line from the WpS.
<<=WARNING=>> Be careful with this line, OS/2 will not start without it.
<<=TIP=>> If you wish to run some other command-line shell, such as 4OS2,
change this line and the SET COMSPEC=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE line, substituting the
appropriate EXE file for CMD.EXE.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.8. SET AUTOSTART=PROGRAMS,TASKLIST,FOLDERS ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
This command is used to start parts of the OS/2 WpS. There is one other
parameter: CONNECTIONS. This starts any network connection in use when the
system was last shutdown.
<<=WARNING=>> If you remove any of these statements, then you may not get OS/2
to respond or you will be restricted from accessing portions of the shell. For
example, if you leave out FOLDERS, Folders, including the Desktop which is also
a folder, can not be opened. If you delete TASKLIST, then you will not obtain
the OS/2 TASKLIST when you press Ctrl-Esc and if PROGRAMS isn't included, only
programs in your startup folder will be available.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.9. SET RUNWORKPLACE=C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
This line tells the system what interface program is to be used. In this case
it is the Workplace Shell.
<<=TIP=>> If you want to run OS/2 with only a command line interface, you can
do so by changing this line to read SET RUNWORKPLACE=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE. This
brings OS/2 up without the WpS and gives you one screen session. Without the
WpS, you lose much of OS/2s functionality, but you can start other sessions
using the START and DETACH command. Otherwise, operated just like you were in
DOS. If you have started more than one session, switch between them using
Alt+Esc. For those who want the power of OS/2 and like to work from a command
line, give this a try. I'm running in this mode right now just as a test and it
appears to work fine.
This is also a way to improve performance on 4MB RAM systems, since the WpS
takes up LOTS of ram.
<<=WARNING=>> If you run without the WpS as noted in the <<=TIP=>> above, you
can not perform a "shut down" from a command line. To do a shut down, at a
command line, type PMSHELL and press enter. This starts the WpS. Once the WpS
is open, you should be able to perform a standard shut down,
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.10. SET RESTARTOBJECTS=YES ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
This command tells OS/2 what applications to start after you suspend operations
with or without doing a Shutdown (as in doing a Ctrl-Alt-Del because some
faulty program has locked up your system). If this statement is not in your
CONFIG.SYS, then the default is YES, i.e., start all objects that were running
at the time of Shutdown or reboot. Other options are:
NO = Do not start any applications that were running at time of shutdown or
reboot.
STARTUPFOLDERSONLY = Start objects only in the Startup folder. This parameter
is also handy for another purpose. If you have one or more programs in the
Startup folder and do a shutdown without closing the programs (i.e. left the
programs open at shutdown), then reboot, OS/2 will restart the programs left
open AND the Startup folder will start another copy. Thus you will have two
copies running. Setting this parameter eliminates this.
REBOOTONLY = Start objects only if the OS/2 WpS is starting from a reboot
(Ctrl-Alt-Del) or at power on. Objects will not restart if the WpS is restarted
as a result of its own error correction recycling.
<<=TIP=>> You can also circumvent the auto-starting of programs by holding down
Ctrl-Shift-F1 all at the same time during boot. It must be done AFTER your
mouse pointer is seen (but not too soon after it appears), but before any icons
appear.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.11. SET COMSPEC=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
This line identifies what OS/2 command-line shell is to be used and where its
at. In DOS, COMMAND.COM is equivalent to CMD.EXE.
<<=TIP=>> If you wish to run some other command-line shell, such as 4OS2,
change this and the SET OS2_SHELL=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE line, substituting the
appropriate EXE file for CMD.EXE.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.12. LIBPATH ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
LIBPATH=.;C:\OS2\DLL;C:\OS2\MDOS;C:\;C:\OS2\APPS\DLL;
This is an OS/2 command. It tells OS/2 where to locate Dynamic Link Libraries
(DLLs). LIBPATH is similiar to DPATH and PATH, but the statement can only be
used in the CONFIG.SYS file and OS/2 does not search the current directory for
DLLs unless you include it in the LIBPATH statement. You don't need to use the
SET command with LIBPATH, it is not an environment variable.
<<=TIP=>> To reduce the search time for OS/2 to locate the file(s), be sure
that the various PATH statements contain the correct path to your program and
other files. You can also have OS/2 search the current directory by including a
period "." right after the equal "=" symbol. This causes OS/2 to look in the
current logged directory first.
One final item that will reduce search time: Be certain that the PATH, LIBPATH
and DPATH statements in the CONFIG.SYS are arranged with the most frequently
accessed subdirectories listed first.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.13. PATH ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
SET
PATH=C:\OS2;C:\OS2\SYSTEM;C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2;C:\OS2\INSTALL;C:\;C:\OS2\MDOS;
C:\OS2\APPS;
Just like in DOS, it tells both DOS and OS/2 where to find programs.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.14. DPATH ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
SET
DPATH=C:\OS2;C:\OS2\SYSTEM;C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2;C:\OS2\INSTALL;C:\;C:\OS2\MDOS;
C:\OS2\APPS;
This is an OS/2 command. It tells OS/2 programs where to look for data files.
It is similiar to the DOS APPEND command, but unlike APPEND, DPATH only works
with programs designed to use it.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.15. SET PROMPT=[$P]$G ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Like the same DOS command, this line sets how your OS/2 command prompt will
appear. (This is for OS/2 only. Set the DOS PROMPT default in your AUTOEXEC.BAT
file.) In the setting shown here, the command prompt will appear showing the
current directory of the default drive enclosed in [] followed by the greater
than symbol, i.e. [C:\]>. Having brackets [] around the drive and directory
information lets you quickly know when you are at an OS/2 command line verses a
DOS command line.
If you type PROMPT without a parameter, OS/2 will return its default prompt
[$p].
Options include
$B = The | character
$C = The open parenthesis (
$D = Current date
$E = ASCII code 27 (escape) so you can work with ANSI. See <<=TIP=>> below.
$F = The close parenthesis )
$G = The "greater than" > symbol
$H = BACKSPACE over previous character
$I = Turns help line on
$L = The "less than" < character
$N = Default drive
$P = Current directory of default drive
$Q = The equal = character
$S = The space character
$T = Current time
$V = OS/2 version number
$_ = Carriage return or line feed
<<=TIP=>> You can also add ANSI control sequences to your prompt. For example,
to help me know visually whether I'm working with an OS/2 command line, I've
added $E[1;33m to my prompt line, i.e. SET PROMPT=$E[1;33m[$P]$G. This sets
text to display in bold yellow characters. Bold yellow characters means OS/2
command line. White characters means DOS command line.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.16. SET HELP=C:\OS2\HELP;C:\OS2\HELP\TUTORIAL; ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Tells OS/2 where the help files are located. OS/2 will only look for a
program's help files in the path shown.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.17. SET DIRCMD=/ON /P ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
This undocumented command is the OS/2 equivalent of the DIR command in DOS.
Since DOS 5, you can tell DIR how to present file information. To do this in
OS/2, use the DIRCMD command. For example: SET DIRCMD=/ON /P tells OS/2 to
display the DIR information in alpha order and place a pause at the end of each
page.
This is for OS/2 only. Set the DOS default in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
Options include:
/A List files with specific attributes. E.g. /AH list only hidden files. Other
options are S A and R. If you place a negative (-) sign in front of your
specified attribute, all files will list except those with the attribute
specified. E.g. /A-H-S will display all files except hidden and system files.
/B List directories and files without heading and summary information.
/F List files with the full drive and path information. Date, time and size are
omitted.
/L Displays information in lower case.
/N Lists files on a FAT drive in the same format used for a HPFS drive, i.e.
date, time, size, name.
/O List files according to sort option specified. Sort options are:
G = Display directories first.
N = Alphabetize by file name.
-N = Reverse-alphabetize by name.
E = Alphabetize by extension.
-E = Reverse-alphabetize by extension.
D = By date, oldest first.
-D = By date, newest first.
S = By file size, smallest first.
-S = By file size, largest first.
/P Pauses after a full screen of files is listed.
/R Displays long file names if applicable.
/S Searches and displays all directories.
/W Displays file names across the screen. Date, time and size are omitted.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.18. SET IPF_KEYS=SBCS ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The character set for most languages can be represented as data using an 8-bit
byte since their character sets are each less than 256 characters. These are
Single Byte Character Sets (SBCS). Languages such as Japanese, Korean and
Chinese can only be represented as data using two 8-bit bytes or 16-bits. These
are Double Byte Character Sets (DBCS).
This command tells the Information Presentation Facility (INF and help files)
which type character set is being used, i.e., Single or Double Byte Character
Set. This is an Environment variable. Removing it from my system did not seem
to have any impact.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.19. PRIORITY_DISK_IO=YES ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
This command determines whether programs running in the foreground have
priority access to disks. The default is YES. If you want a program, like a
BBS, running in the background to have equal access to your disks, then change
this statement to NO.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.20. PRIORITY=DYNAMIC ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
OS/2 automatically assigns processing priorities to each thread of a program
as it begins processing. A thread running in the foreground will generally have
priority over a thread running in background. Thread priorities are adjusted,
generally based upon how active they are, by OS/2 on an ongoing basis to make
sure each thread has adequate processing time. On the rare occasion that you
need to run a program which must never change in priority, you should set
PRIORITY=ABSOLUTE, otherwise, don't mess with it.
This is another OS/2 only command and does not have to be in your CONFIG.SYS.
If it is not, then OS/2 defaults to PRIORITY=DYNAMIC.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.21. FILES=20 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
This is a standard DOS command which sets the maximum number of files that DOS
can access at the same time. OS/2 sets the default at 20, but some DOS programs
may require that you increase this number. The maximum parameter is 255. FILES
is for DOS only and has no effect on OS/2 sessions which can have up to 64,000
files open at the same time.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.22. DEVICE=C:\OS2\TESTCFG.SYS ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
TESTCFG.SYS is used during the install process to test your systems
configuration. It is also used by the Selective Install process and during
device driver installations.
<<=NOTE=>> Because this driver is also used by the Selective Install process,
it should not be deleted.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.23. DEVICE=C:\OS2\PMDD.SYS ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
OS/2 loads and uses this driver to provide pointer draw support along with
POINTDD.SYS.
<<=WARNING=>> OS/2 will not start without this line in your CONFIG.SYS file.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.24. BUFFERS=30 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Tells OS/2 how many disk buffers to set aside. Range is from 3 to 100. Each
buffer takes up to 512 bytes of RAM. 30 is the default and usually works well.
If you are using HPFS only, see tip below. Disk buffers are blocks of memory
set aside by OS/2 for use in reading and writing blocks of data. For example,
if a program wants to change 80 bytes of a file, it needs to read the 512 byte
sector that contains the original data, change the information and then write
the corrected 512 byte sector back out. A "buffer" is the 512 byte temporary
staging area for this partial sector operation. According to source at IBM,
"OS/2 allows multiple simultaneous I/O operations to be queued up for both
diskette and hard disk. Each 'concurrent' operation may need a buffer. If there
are not enough buffers, overlap can be inhibited. Because OS/2 has more
'simultaneous' queued I/O than DOS, it needs more buffers."
<<=TIP=>> Generally, you can speed up your system by increasing the number of
BUFFERS. But, keep in mind that as you increase the number, you reduce
available memory. 30 is the default, but you may wish to experiment with a
higher number, like 50 or 60. Be careful about using a lower number unless you
only have 4MB of RAM. With 4MB of RAM you may wish to set BUFFERS to 20. This
gives you some more valuable memory.
<<=TIP=>> If you are using only HPFS (i.e., no FAT partitions), set BUFFERS to
3. With HPFS you don't need BUFFERS. Remember that 3 is the minimum parameter.
If you set BUFFERS to 1 or 2, OS/2 will default to 30 since 1 and 2 are out of
range.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.25. IOPL=YES ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
An OS/2 command that, when set to YES, lets programs that need to bypass OS/2,
and its device drivers, work directly with hardware devices, do so. One example
is Lotus 123/G. YES means that all programs can access the hardware directly.
NO means that no program can access the hardware directly. YES is the default
and is generally best, since its hard for most of us to know when a program is
written in such a way as to need direct access to hardware.
IOPL stands for Input/Output Privilege Level.
<<=TIP=>> You cans also specify a list of programs that are allowed to work
directly with the hardware. For example, IOPL=WS.EXE,123.EXE would allow only
these two programs to access hardware directly.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.26. RUN=C:\OS2\CACHE.EXE /MAXAGE:2500 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
This line runs CACHE.EXE which allows you to modify the parameters for the
HPFS cache. CACHE.EXE is only used for HPFS partitions. (The DISKCACHE command
sets up a cache for FAT.) There are four switches for CACHE.EXE:
/LAZY: Determines if lazy writes is ON or OFF, that is, whether the contents
of the cache will be written to your hard disk immediately (/LAZY:OFF) or when
your hard disk is idle (/LAZY:ON). The default is ON. I like lazy writes ON
because it improves performance, but keep in mind that since the system delays
writing data to your hard disk, you can lose data if your system should crash.
In the CONFIG.SYS file line above no switch is specified, therefore the default
remains in effect, which is ON.
<<=TIP=>> Lazy writes can also be turned ON or OFF at an OS/2 Command prompt.
<<=WARNING=>> If you include the /LAZY switch, then the CACHE statement will
IGNORE ALL OTHER SWITCHES in the line. Therefore, if you want to turn lazy
writes off (or on) and also change some other parameter, you will need to two
RUN statements.
<<=WARNING=>> There is a bug in OS/2 version 2.1. I verified it on my system.
You can not turn lazy writes off from the CONFIG.SYS file. The WpS always turns
lazy writes ON when it loads regardless of what your CACHE.EXE command sets.
So, if you want lazy writes off, you will need to run the CACHE command AFTER
the WpS starts. Create a CMD file to turn it off and place it in your startup
folder. The WpS has already done its thing when the objects in the startup
folder are opened. You can also turn it off from a command prompt. (Thanks to
Denis Tonn for this critical information).
/MAXAGE: Sets how long data waits in the cache before it is moved to another
area of the cache where less used information is stored, or how long data waits
in the cache before it is written to the hard disk. It is expressed in
milliseconds. The default is 5,000 or about 5 seconds. In the CONFIG.SYS file
line above, the wait is set at 2,500 milliseconds or about two and a half
seconds. I've done this to reduce the chance of data loss.
/DISKIDLE: Sets how long your hard disk must be idle before it will accept
data from the cache. Expressed in milliseconds and the default is 1,000 or
about 1 second. In the CONFIG.SYS file line above no switch is specified
therefore its defaults remain in effect.
/BUFFERIDLE: Sets how long the cache buffer must be idle before its contents
MUST be written to your hard disk. Expressed in milliseconds and the default is
500 or about one half second. In the CONFIG.SYS file line above no switch is
specified therefore its defaults remain in effect.
According to one source at IBM, there are two other undocumented parameters. I
have not pursued their verification, so I can't tell you much.
/DIRTYMAX: The threshhold number of dirty buffers before immediately flushing
of least recently used (LRU) data blocks is needed.
/WRITECACHE: The threshold number of bytes that HPFS will cache for a lazy
write.
<<=NOTE=>> The HPFS IFS CONFIG.SYS file line sets up the cache and uses the
system defaults. This CONFIG.SYS file line is only used to modify the cache
parameters.
<<=TIP=>> You can check to see what parameters the HPFS cache is currently set
at by going to an OS/2 command prompt and keying in the word CACHE and pressing
the enter key.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.27. DISKCACHE=256,LW,32,AC:C ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
If you are using FAT file system, this command sets up a RAM disk cache.
CACHE: The DISKCACHE line noted here sets up a 256k cache. The default cache
size is based upon your RAM. See the table below. If you have the RAM, increase
the size to improve system performance, but don't get carried away by using too
much of your RAM. This will hurt performance by causing too much memory
swapping to disk. Maximum FAT cache size is 14MB.
If you have formatted your system with only FAT partitions, the default cache
size in this statement will be that noted under ONE FILE SYSTEM in the table
below. If you have both FAT and HPFS partitions, then OS/2 2.x defaults to the
cache size noted under TWO FILE SYSTEM. The file system which uses the greatest
amount of your disk space gets the larger default value.
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LW: Enables lazy writes. If you don't want lazy write enabled, then remove
"LW".
32: The third number sets the threshold size. It is expressed in number of
sectors which are 512 bytes each. Data requests from your disk that are larger
than this number will not be cached. The default is 4. Thirty two (32) is said
to be an optimum number. One hundred twenty eight (128) is the maximum
allowable. This setting has no impact on RAM.
AC:C: If you want CHKDSK to automatically check your startup partition (usually
C), then add this switch to end of DISKCACHE command: AC: n where n is your
startup partition, e.g. AC:C.
<<=TIP=>> If you are only using HPFS, then you should REM this statement (don't
delete, you may need or want it later) and save some RAM.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.28. MAXWAIT=3 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
This OS/2 command sets the longest period a program will have to wait to
execute before OS/2 ups its priority. This makes sure that no program is put on
hold forever while some other program hogs the system. You can set MAXWAIT from
1 to 255 seconds. The default is 3 seconds.
<<=TIP=>> When running heavy background programs, such as a BBS, change the
setting to 1, i.e. MAXWAIT=1. This will keep the BBS software or other
background programs running at top speed. For general use, it appears that
setting MAXWAIT=2 makes the system a little livelier.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.29. MEMMAN=SWAP,PROTECT ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
OS/2 can run more programs and use more data than can actually be stored in
memory at any given time. This is done by swapping large amounts of memory to
your hard disk and then reading the data back into memory when needed. This is
called virtual memory. For example, if you only have 4MB of memory (Get MORE
memory fast! You need 8MB minimum with OS/2 2.x) you will see lots of disk
activity while you are working with your system. A lot of this is OS/2 swapping
memory to your hard disk. Lots of memory swapping will slow down your system
and cause your hard disk to fragment quicker than normal.
The MEMMAN command controls the swap process. The syntax is
MEMMAN=s,m,PROTECT,COMMIT where s=SWAP or NOSWAP;m=MOVE or NOMOVE. The default
is to have virtual memory on. To turn off virtual memory, which is NOT
recommended, the CONFIG.SYS file line should read: MEMMAN=NOSWAP.
PROTECT allows the allocation and use of protected memory. Unless you are a
programmer who needs this set to NOPROTECT, leave the default.
<<=NEW 2.1 PARAMETER=>> A new parameter with version 2.1 is COMMIT. With this
parameter included, OS/2 will allocate space in the swap file whenever a
program commits memory. Increase your SWAPPER.DAT file (in the SWAPPATH line
below) by the amount of memory you are likely to use when using the COMMIT
parameter.
<<=TIP=>> You can also use the COMMIT parameter another way. Without COMMIT
set, the minimum free noted in your SWAPPATH specified the point at which OS/2
gives you a message warning that your disk space is running low. When you set
COMMIT, the minimum free value noted in your SWAPPATH statement becomes the
amount of hard disk space that will always remain free on the swap file
partition. Thus, with COMMIT set, you can never run out of disk space on your
swap file partition.
<<=CAUTION=>> When messing with the MEMMAN line (I mean experimenting) I
changed it to MEMMAN=NOSWAP. As a result, I had to boot from my OS/2
Installation disk and recover my backup CONFIG.SYS file to get the system to
boot. I don't know why, but use caution.
<<=NOTE=>> The MOVE/NOMOVE parameter has no effect under OS/2 2.x and is only
provided for OS/2 version 1.x compatibility.
<<=NOTE=>> NOPACK PARAMETER. When OS/2 initially loads a 16 bit OS/2
application, it packs the segments into pages and copies them to the swap file
for faster recovery when needed. This can be disabled by using the NOPACK
option on the MEMMAN= line. However, the performance decrease and larger
working set will rarely offset the potential of a reduced swap file size.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.30. SWAPPATH=C:\OS2\SYSTEM 512 4096 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
OS/2 can allocate more memory than it actually has available, It does this by
swapping memory to a hard disk file called SWAPPER.DAT.
The syntax is SWAPPATH=DRIVE,PATH,mmm,nnn where DRIVE and PATH is the location
where you want the SWAPPER.DAT file to be placed; mmm is a number from 512 to
32767 and specifies how large the SWAPPER.DAT file can grow before it stops
consuming hard disk space. The size is stated in the negative. In other words,
if you have the mmm set to 512, then the SWAPPER.DAT file can grow until there
is only 512k left on your hard disk. The variable nnn is the starting size of
the SWAPPER.DAT file. In the CONFIG.SYS file line above, the starting size is
4096 or 4MB.
The default SWAPPER.DAT size is set based upon the amount of RAM your system
has available as shown in the table below.
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<<=TIP=>> When your swap file grows beyond the intial size you have specified,
OS/2 starts to manage the swap file. This will negatively impact your systems
performance because of the additional system overhead. Therefore, if your swap
file exceeds its initial size, consider increasing the swap files intitial
size.
<<=TIP=>> Normal operation of OS/2 2.x involves considerable disk activity as
operating system functions are loaded and pages are moved in and out of the
swap file. Here are a couple of tips to improve performance.
(1) Consider dedicating a seperate partition for the swap file. This helps
avoid fragmentation of the swap file, because other files will not be added or
deleted from the dedicated partition. (2) If you have both FAT and HPFS
partitions, put the swap file on the HPFS partition to take advantage of the
better performance of HPFS. (3) If you have a system with two hard disk
controllers, put the swap file on a disk managed by the least used controller.
<<=WARNING=>> Never put your swap file on a networked drive.
<<=NOTE=>> Your swap file will grow (in 1MB increments), but it also shrinks
when two conditions are met. When the amount of free space in the swap file is
greater than 1.5MB, the swap file will be compressed during system idle time.
During the compression, free space is moved to the end of the swap file. When
this free space at the end of the swap file exceeds 1MB, the swap file will be
shrunk.
<<=NOTE=>> See the discussion of the new COMMIT parameter for the MEMMAN
CONFIG.SYS line including the <<=TIP=>>.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.31. BREAK=OFF ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
For DOS programs only. Many DOS programs can be stopped by holding down the
Ctrl key and then pressing the Break key. BREAK controls how quickly DOS
programs stop when you interrupt them with the Ctrl-Break sequence. If
BREAK=OFF, DOS will stop the program only when the program next reads a
character from the keyboard or writes to the screen or printer. With BREAK=ON,
DOS will check for the Ctrl-Break on a more frequent basis. Remember that this
extra checking can make your DOS programs run slower.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.32. THREADS=256 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
OS/2 programs can have several different processes running at the same time,
These are called threads. This OS/2 command sets the maximum number of threads,
from 32 to 4095, that OS/2 can run at the same time.
<<=TIP=>> On systems with only 4MB of RAM, set THREADS to 128 to free up
memory. If you only have 4MB of RAM, get more fast. You'll be amazed at the
difference another 4 or 8MB of RAM will make!
<<=TIP=>> If you have more than 8MB of RAM and run mostly OS/2 specific
programs, you should be able to improve system responsiveness by increasing the
number of threads. Why? Because well written OS/2 programs will use threads to
improve program performance. Therefore, the more OS/2 programs in use, the more
threads that could be needed.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.33. PRINTMONBUFSIZE=134,134,134 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
This OS/2 command sets the size of the print buffers for your parallel ports.
The syntax is PRINTMONBUFSIZE=LPT1,LPT2,LPT3 where LPT1 is the buffer size for
the parallel port LPT1, LPT2 is the buffer size for LPT2 and LPT3 is the buffer
size for LPT3. The default and minimum is 134 bytes and the maximum is 2048
bytes.
<<=NOTE=>> You must define a buffer for LPT2 abd LPT3 even if you don't use
these ports. You will get an error message at startup if you don't.
<<=TIP=>> You may be able to improve printer throughput by increasing buffer
size.
<<=TIP=>> On systems with less than 6MB of RAM, don't increase the size of
these buffers.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.34. COUNTRY=001,C:\OS2\SYSTEM\COUNTRY.SYS ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Customizes your system for the country you wish to use. It establishes which
defaults to use when it comes to decimal seperators, date and time formats,
currency symbols, etc. The syntax is COUNTRY=xxx, PATH, FILENAME. xxx is a
three-digit code number that tells what country to use. The number is usually
(but not always) the same as the international telephone dialing prefix for the
country desired. The table below contains various country codes.
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ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.35. SET KEYS=OFF ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
When using the Command-line, KEYS tells CMD.EXE whether to remember previous
keystrokes so they can be recalled with the up arrow key. OS/2 maintains a 64k
buffer for storing keystroke history, KEYS can be ON or OFF.
<<=TIP=>> On systems with only 4MB of RAM, SET KEYS to OFF, you need the memory
more than this feature. Even with 8MB of RAM, since I don't use the feature I
have turned it off to get a small memory boost.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.36. REM SET DELDIR=C:\DELETE,512; ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
To use OS/2s UNDELETE command, you must first establish a directory in which
to store the deleted files. To do this, create a directory called DELETE in
your root and then remove the "REM" from this CONFIG.SYS file line.
This command points OS/2 to the directory you created to place deleted files
in. It also indicates the maximum number of files that will be stored in the
DELETE directory. If the number of deleted files exceeds the maximum number
that you specified, then files are automatically removed from the directory on
a first-in first-out basis.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.37. BASEDEV ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
BASEDEV=PRINT01.SYS
BASEDEV=IBMFLPY.ADD
BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD
BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD
BASEDEV installs a base device driver used by OS/2 when it is first started.
The statement cannot contain either a drive or path because OS/2 cannot process
such information at the stage at which these statements are processed. Other
base device drivers include:
PRINT01.SYS supports attached printers on non-Micro Channel PC's.
PRINT02.SYS supports attached printers on Micro Channel PC's.
IBM1FLPY.ADD supports diskette drives on non-Micro Channel PC's.
IBM2FLPY.ADD supports diskette drives on Micro Channel PC's.
IBMSCSI.ADD supports SCSI disk drives on Micro Channel PC's.
OS2SCSI.DMD supports non-disk SCSI devices.
IBM1S506.ADD supports non-SCSI disk drives on non-Micro Channel PC's.
OS2DASD.DMD is a general purpose driver for disk drives.
IBM2ADSK.ADD supports non-SCSI disk drives on Micro Channel PC's.
IBMINT13.I13 supports non-Micro Channel SCSI adapters.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.38. SET BOOKSHELF=C:\GAMMA32;C:\OS2\BOOK ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
This command points to the on-line documentation (INF files) provided with
OS/2 and to any on-line documentation provided by other OS/2 programs. I have
the GAMMATECH utilities installed on my system which contains on-line
documentation.
<<=TIP=>> If you have an HPFS partition, copy all of your on-line documentation
(INF files) to this partition. Then change this parameter to reflect the new
path. You will notice a substantial improvement in search speed since HPFS is
much faster than FAT.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.39. SET EPMPATH=C:\OS2\APPS ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Replaced SET EPATH=C:\OS2\APPS; in version 2.0. According to a source in IBM,
EPMPATH is used by the Enhanced Editor (EPM.EXE).
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.40. REM DEVICE=C:\OS2\APPS\SASYNCDB.SYS ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
This device driver loads asynchronous communications support for the PM
Terminal applet.
<<=TIP=>> If you don't use PM Terminal, REM this line to save a little memory.
In fact, if you are not using PM Terminal you may wish to consider deleting the
files to save some disk space also.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.41. PROTECTONLY=NO ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
An OS/2 command. Allows you to choose between a shared DOS and OS/2 operating
environment or just an OS/2 environment. If you plan to run only OS/2 programs,
then set PROTECTONLY=YES. If you plan to run DOS programs (this includes
Windows programs also), then set PROTECTONLY=NO.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.42. SHELL=C:\OS2\MDOS\COMMAND.COM C:\OS2\MDOS /P ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
This line identifies and loads the DOS command processor COMMAND.COM which you
must have to make DOS sessions work. The /p switch keeps the command processor
in memory until shutdown.
This is the line where you can also specify the size of the DOS environment
variable. The range is 160 to 32768. For example, to set a 1024 byte
environment you would add the following to the end of the SHELL command line:
/E:1024
<<=TIP=>> You can also load and run other command processor's such as 4DOS. To
do so, just put 4DOS in your MDOS directory and change the SHELL line to read
4DOS.COM instead of COMMAND.COM.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.43. FCBS=16,8 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
A file control block (FCBS) is an outmoded record that gives information about
a file to DOS. This CONFIG.SYS file line tells DOS how many FCBS can be open at
once, or, when DOS needs to open more FCBS than are available, how many
currently open but not active FCBS may be closed to make room for new ones.
The syntax is FCBS=a,b where a=the number of FCBS that DOS can have open at
one time and b=the number of FCBS DOS cannot close to make room for new FCBS.
"a" can be as high as 255. "b" can have a value of 0 to 254, but must be less
than "a". Unless you get some kind of error message when running a DOS program
that tells you the program doesn't have enough FCBS, leave the default as set.
<<=TIP=>> You may wish to experiment with a smaller number. If you can get by
with a smaller number, you will get back a little memory in each of your DOS
sessions.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.44. RMSIZE=640 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
This is a DOS command and sets the amount of memory available for use by each
DOS session. The maximum is 640k. Since some DOS programs require 640k, it's
best to have RMSIZE set to 640.
<<=TIP=>> If you only have 4MB of RAM or don't have any DOS programs that need
a full 640k, you should consider reducing this parameter to 512. Many DOS
applications will run in a 512k DOS partition. Doing this will free up some
additional RAM which will help performance.
<<=TIP=>> If you need maximum memory (more than 640k), see tip under
DOS=LOW,NOUNB.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.45. DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VEMM.SYS ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
VEMM.SYS lets DOS programs use expanded memory unless you override it by
changing a DOS programs SETTINGS.
Three of its switches are:
/S=n Sets the limit of EMS memory in blocks of 1024k. Default is 2.
/L=n Size of conventional memory that can be remapped. Default is none.
/F=nnnn Memory frame address to be used to map EMS. Default is AUTO.
Settings you specify in a DOS session will override these switches.
<<=NOTE=>> The VEMM.SYS device must be listed in your CONFIG.SYS file before
the VXMS.SYS device.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.46. DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VMOUSE.SYS ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Identifies and loads the mouse driver to let you use a mouse with DOS. Mouse
support for OS/2 is loaded below.
<<=NOTE=>> If you don't have this line (or you REM'd it), you will not have
mouse support in your DOS sessions.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.47. DOS=LOW,NOUMB ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
This is a standard DOS command that lets you control how DOS uses memory. The
OS/2 default is DOS=LOW,NOUMB and is considered by many to be the best setting
for it conserves memory for OS/2. DOS=HIGH (including,UMB) reduces available
memory for OS/2, but increases the available memory in EVERY DOS session. Few
DOS sessions need maximum memory. Also remember that you can move DOS HIGH for
a specific program by changing that programs DOS settings. This is done in the
Settings Notebook and is likely the better way to go. Finally, keep in mind
that in OS/2 many device drivers are not taking up room in your 640k DOS area.
So you generally have more memory in the typical OS/2 DOS session than in a
standard DOS session.
The following is the amount of memory my system reports in each DOS session
with DOS=LOW,NOUMB. The vast majority of all DOS programs will run just fine
with this amount of memory.
655360 bytes total memory
655360 bytes available for DOS
618208 largest executable program size <-----This equals about 604k.
With DOS=HIGH, the amount of memory reported is:
655360 bytes total memory
655360 bytes available for DOS
643632 largest executable program size <-----About 629k.
<<=TIP=>> If you have need for maximum available RAM in a DOS session and can
get by on CGA or MONO, change RMSIZE=639 (See description of this parameter
three command lines above) in your CONFIG.SYS file (has to be 639k due to a bug
in OS/2). Then in DOS Settings of your applications Settings Notebook, change
VIDEO_MODE_RESTRICTION to CGA or MONO. The amount of memory reported after
doing this on my machine is:
752640 bytes total memory
752640 bytes available for DOS
740656 largest executable program size
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.48. REM DEVICE=C:\OS2\APM.SYS ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Device driver for ADVANCED POWER MANAGEMENT system used with laptop systems.
If you have this line in your CONFIG.SYS file and you are NOT using a laptop,
REM or delete the statement. If you are using a laptop, see the OS/2 README
file for more details on its operation.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.49. DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VXMS.SYS /UMB ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
VXMS.SYS is a device driver that provides Extended Memory management to DOS
sessions. XMS allows DOS programs to access more than one MB of memory. You
need the /UMB switch at the end if you want upper memory block support in DOS
sessions.
<<=NOTE=>> The VXMS.SYS device must be listed in your CONFIG.SYS file after the
VEMM.SYS device.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.50. DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VDPX.SYS ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Driver required when using VDPMI in the CONFIG.SYS file line below. One
authority said that this driver "provides V86 to Protected Mode translation for
DPMI memory". Well that's enough to lose me.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.51. DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VDPMI.SYS ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Provides "virtual" DPMI (DOS Protect Mode Interface) memory for DOS and
Windows sessions. I don't know much about this, but I've been told not to
remove it.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.52. DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VWIN.SYS ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Assists in the process of providing seamless Windows support.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.53. DEVICE=C:\OS2\EXTDSKDD.SYS ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
EXTDSKDD.SYS supports external disk drives.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.54. PCMCIA and VPCMCIA.SYS ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
REM DEVICE=C:\OS2\PCMCIA.SYS
REM DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VPCMCIA.SYS
These two drivers are new to version 2.1. They provide support for computers
that have PC Memory Card Association (PCMCIA) adapters.
<<=TIP=>> If you don't have any PCMCIA devices, then you should REM these
drivers to save a little RAM.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.55. REM DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VCDROM.SYS ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
This is a CD-ROM device driver.
<<=TIP=>> If you don't have a CD-ROM installed, you should REM this line to
save a little RAM. Remember, the more RAM OS/2 has--up to 16MB-- the better it
runs. After 16MB it doesn't seem to improve much, overall.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.56. REM IFS=C:\OS2\CDFS.IFS ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
This OS/2 command is needed if you have a CD-ROM. It installs CDFS.IFS which
is the "Installable File System" for CD-ROMs. Your CD-ROM is not going to run
without it.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.57. DEVINFO=SCR,VGA,C:\OS2\VIOTBL.DCP ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
This command prepares your monitor to display information based upon the
CODEPAGE specification. VIOTBL.DCP is the file that contains the video fonts
for displaying characters for each of the CODEPAGES supported by OS/2. See the
CODEPAGE command line below.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.58. DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VVGA.SYS ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Your CONFIG.SYS file will contain various device drivers for various devices
based upon your systems hardware configuration. This device driver happens to
be for the VGA video card.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.59. DEVICE=C:\OS2\POINTDD.SYS ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
POINTDD.SYS is the file that contains information on what the mouse pointer
looks like and draws it on your screen.
<<=WARNING=>> In order for MOUSE.SYS to work effectively, this driver must be
loaded by OS/2. Do not remove it from your CONFIG.SYS file.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.60. DEVICE=C:\OS2\MOUSE.SYS SERIAL=COM1 QSIZE=10 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Lets you use a mouse or track ball with OS/2. This line also identifies the
type of mouse you have and which COM port it is on. QSIZE is a number from 1 to
100 which indicates how many mouse actions are to be saved when you execute
mouse actions faster than your system can handle them.
<<=NOTE=>> The MOUSE.SYS statement must come before the COM.SYS because COM.SYS
will take over any unused COM port. If COM.SYS takes over the COM ports before
MOUSE.SYS is loaded, MOUSE.SYS will not have any COM ports available, thus no
mouse support.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.61. DEVICE=C:\OS2\COM.SYS ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Lets you use the communications ports one and two (COM1 and COM2). (If you
want to use COM3 or COM4 or change the IRQ of a COM port, see <<=TIP=>> below.)
This line MUST appear after any driver that uses the communication ports. Use
COM02.SYS for IBM PS/2 model 90 and 95.
<<=TIP=>> There is a very good replacement driver for COM.SYS\VCOM.SYS called
SIO.SYS\VSIO.SYS. It can be obtained on most OS/2 BBSs. If you utilize a
communications packet on a regular basis at high speeds (e.g. 14,400), I
recommend you consider SIO.SYS. Replace VCOM.SYS (below) with VSIO.SYS which
comes with SIO.SYS. SIO.SYS and VSIO.SYS are Shareware, not Freeware. Register
them if you use them!!!
<<=TIP=>> To add support for COM3 and COM4 at location 3E8 with IRQ 4 and 2E8
with IRQ 3 respectively, add (3,3E8,4)(4,2E8,3) to the DEVICE line, e.g.
DEVICE=C:\OS2\COM.SYS (3,3E8,4)(4,2E8,3). You can also use this method to
change a COM ports assigned IRQ.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.62. DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VCOM.SYS ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Lets you use the communications ports for DOS and Windows sessions. Must
appear after the COM.SYS driver.
<<=NOTE=>> If you are using COM3 and/or COM4, add the appropriate parameters to
the COM.SYS line above only. It is not necessary to add any parameters to this
line. VCOM.SYS inherits its parameters from the COM.SYS line.
<<=TIP=>> See TIP under DEVICE=C:\OS2\COM.SYS regarding SIO.SYS.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.63. DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\ANSI.SYS ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
This is the traditional DOS command most are familiar with. It only affects
DOS sessions. This line is not added to your CONFIG.SYS file by default. If you
want it, you need to add it.
OS/2 sessions have ANSI support by default. If you are unsure if ANSI is on or
off in an OS/2 session, go to an OS/2 command prompt and type ANSI. You will
get a message like: ANSI extended screen and keyboard control is on. For an
OS/2 session, turn ANSI off or on by typing ANSI OFF or ANSI ON at an OS/2
command prompt.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.64. DEVICE=C:\OS2\LOG.SYS ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
This optional device driver installs OS/2s error-log file. If you want a log
of errors that occur on your system, then add this and the next line to your
CONFIG.SYS file. If you are interested in such things, you may wish to play
with it, but be forewarned, the error log information is cryptic. For example,
only error codes are reported. To learn what these codes mean, you need to have
IBMs Systems Network Architecture Formats (GA27-3136-12) or, for a reasonable
overview, get OS/2 2.1 Unleashed, 1993, SAMS Publishing.
The switch /E:<kb> sets the size of the error-log buffer. The range is from
4kb to 64kb with 8kb as the default. I've not used this switch in the
CONFIG.SYS file line above, therefore the default will be used.
You will get a short and quick message during boot up indicating that Logging
has been installed and what the buffer size is.
<<=NOTE=>> LOG.SYS has its limitations. It will not log an application error
unless the application has been written to make use of LOG.SYS. Some routine
system errors will not log either because OS/2 opens an error message box on
screen to report these.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.65. RUN=C:\OS2\SYSTEM\LOGDAEM.EXE /E:C:\OS2\LOGFILE.DAT /W:16 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
This RUN command starts the logging process and must appear AFTER you have
installed the LOG.SYS driver noted in the CONFIG.SYS file line above. The two
switches are:
/E:<path><filename> This is the path and filename of the test file where the
errors will be logged. You can place it anywhere you want and call it anything
you wish. NOTE: Like the OS/2 INI files, this file is "locked" and you will not
be able to access it with your standard text editor or the OS/2 System Editor.
You will get a "violation error". The Enhanced Editor will open the file.
/W:<kb> This is the size of the file named with the /E switch. The default
size is 64k, but with this switch you can set the value from 4k to 64k. I've
set the file size at 16k in the example line above.
<<=NOTE=>> Use SYSLOG.EXE from an OS/2 command line prompt to view your log
file.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.66. CODEPAGE=437,850 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Lets you use the alphabet of various countries and languages. The syntax is
CODEPAGE=ppp,sss where ppp is the number of the primary national alphabet to be
used and sss is the secondary alphabet number. 437=US English alphabet and 850=
multinational alphabet. The multinational alphabet contains most of the
accented letters used in various European languages. Several other alphabets
that can be supported by your version of OS/2. See table below.
<<=WARNING=>> Japan, Korea and Chinese require a special version of OS/2 and
special hardware.
<<=NOTE=>> If there is not a CODEPAGE statement in your CONFIG.SYS file, your
keyboard will use an alphabet based on the COUNTRY statement found earlier in
your CONFIG.SYS file, but your screen and printer will use their built-in
defaults.
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ΓöéPoland Γöé852 Γöé850 Γöé
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ΓöéPortugal Γöé850 Γöé860 Γöé
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ΓöéSpain Γöé850 Γöé437 Γöé
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ΓöéSweden Γöé850 Γöé437 Γöé
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ΓöéSwitzerland (French)Γöé850 Γöé437 Γöé
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ΓöéSwitzerland (German)Γöé850 Γöé437 Γöé
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ΓöéTaiwan Γöé437 Γöé850 Γöé
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ΓöéTurkey Γöé857 Γöé850 Γöé
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ΓöéYugoslavia Γöé852 Γöé850 Γöé
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ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.67. DEVINFO=KBD,US,C:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Tells the keyboard which multinational character set to use and where to find
the file KEYBOARD.DCP which translates keystrokes. The syntax is:
DEVINFO=KBD,cc,DRIVE,PATH,FILENAME. The parameter cc equals the character set
to be used, e.g. US = United States. See table below for character set codes.
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ΓöéLANGUAGE ΓöéCOUNTRY CODE Γöé
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ΓöéArabic ΓöéAR Γöé
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ΓöéBelgian ΓöéBE Γöé
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ΓöéCanadian FrenchΓöéCF Γöé
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ΓöéCzech/Czech ΓöéCS243 Γöé
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ΓöéCzech/Slovak ΓöéCS245 Γöé
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ΓöéDanish ΓöéDK Γöé
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ΓöéDutch ΓöéNL Γöé
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ΓöéFinnish ΓöéSU Γöé
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ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.68. DEVICE=C:\OS2\VDISK.SYS 512 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
As in DOS, this driver installs a RAM disk. In this example, the RAM disk is
512k with the sectors and directories parameters set at the default level
(64-byte sectors and 64 directory entries). With DOS, a RAM disk could
significantly improve system performance, but because OS/2 handles your memory
far more efficiently than DOS and has its own sophisticated caching routines,
using a RAM disk is not recommended.
<<=CAUTION=>> Because a RAM disk takes available memory away from OS/2, you may
negatively impact system performance on systems with less than 12MB of RAM.
Unless you have lots of RAM or have a very specific need, don't install a RAM
disk.
<<=NOTE=>> If you do install VDISK.SYS and you also have EXTDSKDD.SYS
installed, VDISK.SYS must be placed after EXTDSKDD.SYS in your CONFIG.SYS file.
Check your online Command Reference for information on EXTDSKDD.SYS.
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END OF CONFIG.SYS FILE DESCRIPTION
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5. Obscure CONFIG.SYS settings ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
What follows are some very obscure CONFIG.SYS file settings. They are here
only for informational purposes. Unless you have a very specific need and know
what you're doing, please don't experiment with these.
SET SHELLEXCEPTIONHANDLER=OFF
The WpS has its own exception handling routines which allows it to recover
from most errors. You can turn off this "exception handling" with this command.
Could be useful when debugging an object.
SET OBJECTSNOOZETIME=45
Useful when programming certain types of object DLLs.
TIMESLICE=128,256
This command allows you to manually control the minimum and maximum amount of
processor time any thread can receive at once. The syntax is:
TIMESLICE=x,y where x is the minimum time slice (in milliseconds and must be at
least 32) and where y is the maximum length (must be less than 65536).
<<=TIP=>> OS/2 handles time slicing dynamically. This means that the system is
adjusting the time slice values based on the actual processes active on the
system as the workload changes. Therefore, it is best not to attempt to
manually set TIMESLICE. OS/2 can handle this process far better than most of us
can.
TRACE=ON
Helpful for System Administrators and programmers. Assists in the tracking of
system problems by turning TRACE on (or off) and establishing a buffer (4k is
default. You can increase this using the command TRACEBUF) to store tracing
data. You can also start TRACE from an OS/2 command prompt.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6. Sample CONFIG.SYS files. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
FILE FOR CLONE WITH 8MB OF RAM AND VGA RUNNING ONLY HPFS
CALL=C:\OS2\XCOPY.EXE C:\OS2\*.BK1 C:\OS2\*.BK2
CALL=C:\OS2\XCOPY.EXE C:\OS2\*.INI C:\OS2\*.BK1
IFS=C:\OS2\HPFS.IFS /CACHE:512 /CRECL:4 /AUTOCHECK:C
PROTSHELL=C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE
SET USER_INI=C:\OS2\OS2.INI
SET SYSTEM_INI=C:\OS2\OS2SYS.INI
SET OS2_SHELL=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE
SET AUTOSTART=PROGRAMS,TASKLIST,FOLDERS
SET RUNWORKPLACE=C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE
SET RESTARTOBJECTS=YES
SET COMSPEC=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE
LIBPATH=.;C:\OS2\DLL;C:\OS2\MDOS;C:\;C:\OS2\APPS\DLL;
SET PATH=C:\OS2;C:\OS2\SYSTEM;C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2;C:\OS2\INSTALL;
C:\;C:\OS2\MDOS;C:\OS2\APPS;
SET DPATH=C:\OS2;C:\OS2\SYSTEM;C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2;C:\OS2\INSTALL;
C:\;C:\OS2\BITMAP;C:\OS2\MDOS;C:\OS2\APPS;
SET PROMPT=$E[1;33m[$P]$G
SET HELP=C:\OS2\HELP;C:\OS2\HELP\TUTORIAL;
SET GLOSSARY=C:\OS2\HELP\GLOSS;
SET DIRCMD=/O /P
SET IPF_KEYS=SBCS (New with version 2.1)
PRIORITY_DISK_IO=YES
FILES=20
DEVICE=C:\OS2\TESTCFG.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\DOS.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\PMDD.SYS
BUFFERS=50
IOPL=YES
REM * DISKCACHE=256,LW,32,AC:C
MAXWAIT=2
MEMMAN=SWAP,PROTECT
SWAPPATH=C:\OS2\SYSTEM 512 4096
BREAK=OFF
THREADS=256
PRINTMONBUFSIZE=402,134,134
COUNTRY=001,C:\OS2\SYSTEM\COUNTRY.SYS
SET KEYS=OFF REM * SET DELDIR=C:\DELETE,512;
BASEDEV=PRINT01.SYS
BASEDEV=IBM1FLPY.ADD
BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD
BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD
SET BOOKSHELF=C:\OS2\BOOK
SET EPMPATH=C:\OS2\APPS
REM * DEVICE=C:\OS2\APPS\SASYNCDA.SYS
PROTECTONLY=NO
SHELL=C:\OS2\MDOS\COMMAND.COM C:\OS2\MDOS /P
FCBS=16,8
RMSIZE=640
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VEMM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VMOUSE.SYS
DOS=LOW,NOUMB
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VDPX.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VXMS.SYS /UMB
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VDPMI.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VWIN.SYS
REM * DEVICE=C:\OS2\PCMCIA.SYS (New with version 2.1)
REM * DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VPCMCIA.SYS (New with version 2.1)
REM * DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VCDROM.SYS
DEVINFO=SCR,VGA,C:\OS2\VIOTBL.DCP
SET VIDEO_DEVICES=VIO_VGA
SET VIO_VGA=DEVICE(BVHVGA)
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VVGA.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\POINTDD.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MOUSE.SYS SERIAL=COM1
DEVICE=C:\OS2\COM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VCOM.SYS
CODEPAGE=437,850
DEVINFO=KBD,US,C:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP
FOR CLONE WITH 8MB RAM AND VGA RUNNING ONLY FAT
Make the following two changes in the CONFIG.SYS listing above.
Γûá REM this line: IFS=C:\OS2\HPFS.IFS /CACHE:512 /CRECL:4 /AUTOCHECK:C
Γûá Remove the REM from this line: REM DISKCACHE=256,LW
FOR CLONE WITH 8MB RAM AND VGA RUNNING BOTH FAT AND HPFS
Make the following change in the CONFIG.SYS listing above.
Γûá Remove the REM from this line: REM DISKCACHE=256,LW
FOR CLONE WITH 4 OR 6MB OF RAM AND VGA RUNNING FAT
CALL=C:\OS2\XCOPY.EXE C:\OS2\*.BK1 C:\OS2\*.BK2
CALL=C:\OS2\XCOPY.EXE C:\OS2\*.INI C:\OS2\*.BK1
REM * IFS=C:\OS2\HPFS.IFS /CACHE:512 /CRECL:4 /AUTOCHECK:C
PROTSHELL=C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE
SET USER_INI=C:\OS2\OS2.INI
SET SYSTEM_INI=C:\OS2\OS2SYS.INI
SET OS2_SHELL=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE
SET AUTOSTART=PROGRAMS,TASKLIST,FOLDERS
SET RUNWORKPLACE=C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE
SET RESTARTOBJECTS=YES
SET COMSPEC=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE
LIBPATH=.;C:\OS2\DLL;C:\OS2\MDOS;C:\;C:\OS2\APPS\DLL;
SET PATH=C:\OS2;C:\OS2\SYSTEM;C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2;C:\OS2\INSTALL;C:\;
C:\OS2\BITMAP;C:\OS2\MDOS;C:\OS2\APPS;
SET DPATH=C:\OS2;C:\OS2\SYSTEM;C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2;C:\OS2\INSTALL;C:\;
C:\OS2\BITMAP;C:\OS2\MDOS;C:\OS2\APPS;
SET PROMPT=$E[1;33m[$p]$g
SET HELP=C:\OS2\HELP;C:\OS2\HELP\TUTORIAL;
SET GLOSSARY=C:\OS2\HELP\GLOSS;
SET DIRCMD=/O /P
SET IPF_KEYS=SBCS (New with version 2.1)
PRIORITY_DISK_IO=YES
FILES=20
DEVICE=C:\OS2\TESTCFG.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\DOS.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\PMDD.SYS
BUFFERS=20
IOPL=YES
DISKCACHE=64,L2,12,AC:C
MAXWAIT=2
MEMMAN=SWAP,PROTECT
SWAPPATH=C:\OS2\SYSTEM 512 6144
BREAK=OFF
THREADS=128
PRINTMONBUFSIZE=134,134,134
COUNTRY=001,C:\OS2\SYSTEM\COUNTRY.SYS
SET KEYS=OFF
REM * SET DELDIR=C:\DELETE,512;
BASEDEV=PRINT01.SYS
BASEDEV=IBM1FLPY.ADD
BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD
BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD
SET BOOKSHELF=C:\OS2\BOOK
SET EPMPATH=C:\OS2\APPS
REM * DEVICE=C:\OS2\APPS\SASYNCDA.SYS
PROTECTONLY=NO
SHELL=C:\OS2\MDOS\COMMAND.COM C:\OS2\MDOS /P
FCBS=16,8
RMSIZE=512
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VEMM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VMOUSE.SYS
DOS=LOW,NOUMB
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VDPX.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VXMS.SYS /UMB
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VDPMI.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VWIN.SYS
REM * DEVICE=C:\OS2\PCMCIA.SYS (New with version 2.1)
REM * DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VPCMCIA.SYS (New with version 2.1)
REM * DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VCDROM.SYS
DEVINFO=SCR,VGA,C:\OS2\VIOTBL.DCP
SET VIDEO_DEVICES=VIO_VGA
SET VIO_VGA=DEVICE(BVHVGA)
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VVGA.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\POINTDD.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MOUSE.SYS SERIAL=COM1
DEVICE=C:\OS2\COM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VCOM.SYS
CODEPAGE=437,850
DEVINFO=KBD,US,C:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7. HOW TO RESTORE A DAMAGED CONFIG.SYS FILE FROM A BACKUP COPY ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
1. Boot OS/2 from the OS/2 Installation Disk.
2. Insert OS/2 Disk #1 when asked.
3. Press the ESC key when you get the first text screen. By doing this you
will be put into OS/2s command-line mode.
4. Assuming that your backup copy of CONFIG.SYS is named CONFIG.SAV, enter
the following command:
COPY C:\CONFIG.SAV C:\CONFIG.SYS
Press the ENTER key.
5. Remove OS/2 Disk #1 and reboot system.
What if you didn't make a backup copy? IBM thought about you. When OS/2 was
first installed on your system, the installation program made a backup copy of
your original CONFIG.SYS file. It stored this file in C:\OS2\INSTALL. To
restore from this file follow the same steps above, EXCEPT, in step #4 enter
the following command instead of the one shown:
COPY C:\OS2\INSTALL\CONFIG.SYS C:\CONFIG.SYS
<<=TIP=>> Replace the CONFIG.SYS file saved by the OS/2 installation program in
the INSTALL directory with your most current version, thus allowing you to
restore from it.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8. REXX SUPPORT FROM WITHIN THE CONFIG.SYS FILE ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The question of whether REXX programs can be called from within the CONFIG.SYS
file has been asked by a number of people. Keith Medcalf's response to the
question is one of the best I've seen. Thanks Keith!
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Date: 07-30-93, 08:06 Number: 483
From: Keith Medcalf Refer: 477
to: Russ Williams Recvd: No
Subj: REXX from CONFIG.SYS Conf: Ibm.Os2se
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Wednesday July 28 1993 16:34, Russ Williams wrote to All:
RW>Can anyone tell me what restrictions there are on running REXX
RW>programs from CONFIG.SYS (via "CALL=")? It doesn't work for me, and
RW>the online help is no help.
You cannot. The DLLs required to support Rexx are not loaded until Presentation
Manager is loaded. If you require Rexx support earlier, look for a program
called SRVREXX at a fine BBS near you.
Adding the line RUN=SRVREXX.EXE to the CONFIG.SYS will immediately initialize
Rexx. You will then be able to access Rexx with or without PM being loaded.
END OF CONFIG.SYS FILE DESCRIPTION