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- OS/2 2.0 CONFIG.SYS DESCRIPTION - Version 3.5
-
- For myself and many others the OS/2 2.0 CONFIG.SYS file is somewhat of a mystery. So, in the
- hope of learning something of use, I began researching what many of the commands were for.
- This file is the result of that research. It briefly describes many of the common commands
- found in an OS/2 CONFIG.SYS file. Naturally, not all possible commands are listed (especially
- the many hardware device drivers), but most of the more common ones are.
-
- VIEWING FILE: For best viewing, use the OS/2 2.0 Enhanced Editor with word wrap OFF.
-
- PRINTING FILE: Print in compress print mode if possible.
-
- BEGINNING OF FILE LISTING
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-
- IFS=C:\OS2\HPFS.IFS /CACHE:512 /CRECL:4 /AUTOCHECK:C
-
- This OS/2 command installs the HPFS, if you are using it, instead of FAT. The
- syntax is IFS=DRIVE:PATH\FILENAME,SWITCHES. There are three switches: /CACHE:nnn
- sets up a disk cache and sets it size. The default is 64 and much to low. If you
- have 8 meg of RAM, set the cache to 512, but keep in mind that you don't want an
- excessive cache because the memory used come directly out of memory available for
- programs, e.g. if you set a 2 meg cache on a six meg system, you will notice a
- substantial performance hit. It is my understanding that the maximum cache size
- for HPFS is currently 2MB and IBM does not recommend using a larger cache than 1.5
- meg. /CRECL sets the maximum record size for caching, from 2k to 64k in multiples
- of 2k; and /AUTOCHECK:nn tells the system to run CHKDSK and sets the drives to be
- checked at startup.
-
- IFS stands for "Installable File System".
-
- If you are using only FAT partitions, then you should REM this statement and save
- yourself 500k of RAM.
-
- PAUSEONERROR=YES
-
- 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 set-
- ting that you may not notice it or be able to read it.
-
- PROTSHELL=C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE
-
- 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 develop your own
-
-
-
-
-
-
- user interface and use it instead of the WpS.
-
- SET USER_INI=C:\OS2\OS2.INI
-
- Tells OS/2 the name and locations of the file that contains your desktop setup
- information and the options saved from OS/2 applications which need to do so.
- OS2.INI is the default file name. NOTE: OS2.INI is a critical file to the proper
- operation of OS/2 and should not be deleted or modified. The file is not an ASCII
- file and therefore cannot be modified with an ASCII editor if it should become
- damaged. As a result, you should consider backing up this file 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 OS2 directory, can be used to easily build a new set of
- INI files. You will have to boot from an OS/2 floppy to do so.
-
- SET SYSTEM_INI=C:\OS2\OS2SYS.INI
-
- 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
- files and should not be deleted or modified. It is not an ASCII file and can't be
- edited. Therefore, you should consider backing up this file 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 OS2 directory, can be used to easily build a new set of
- INI files. You will have to boot from an OS/2 floppy to do so.
-
- SET OS2_SHELL=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE
-
- OS2_SHELL directs OS/2 to load the command-line shell identified at boot time.
- The COMSPEC line below helps OS/2 find the command-line shell later.
-
- SET AUTOSTART=PROGRAMS,TASKLIST,FOLDERS
-
- This command is used to start parts of the OS/2 WpS. If you remove any of these
- statements, then you will be restricted from accessing portions of the shell.
-
- SET RUNWORKPLACE=C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE
-
- This line tells the system what interface program is to be used. In this case it
- is the Workplace Shell.
-
- SET RESTARTOBJECTS=YES
-
- This command tells OS/2 what objects/applications to restart after you suspend
- operations with or without doing a Shut_down (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, start all objects that were running at the
- time of Shut_down or reboot. Other options include:
-
- NO = do not start any applications that were running at time of shutdown or reboot.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- STARTUPFOLDERSONLY = start objects only in the Startup folder.
-
- REBOOTONLY = Start objects only if the OS/2 WpS is starting from a reboot or at power on.
-
- SET COMSPEC=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE
-
- This line identifies what command-line shell is to be used and where its at. In
- DOS, COMMAND.COM is equivalent to CMD.EXE.
-
- 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 or
- DLLs. LIBPATH is similar 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. To have OS/2 search the current direc-
- tory, include a period "." right after the equal "=" symbol as noted above. You
- don't need to use the SET command with LIBPATH, it is not an environment varible.
-
- 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.
-
- 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 similar to the DOS APPEND command, but unlike APPEND, DPATH only works with
- programs designed to use it.
-
- SET PROMPT=[$p]
-
- Standard DOS command for setting how your OS/2 command prompt will appear. As
- noted here, the command prompt will appear showing the current directory of the
- default drive enclosed in [], i.e. [C:\]. Having the [] bracket the drive and
- directory information lets you quickly know when you are at an OS/2 command line
- verse a DOS command line. If you type PROMPT without a parameter, OS/2 will re-
- turn its default prompt [$p].
-
- This is for OS/2 only. Set the DOS PROMPT default in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
-
- Options include:
-
- $D = Current date
- $E = ASCII code 27 (escape) so you can work with ASCII
- $G = > symbol
- $I = Turns help line on
- $N = Default drive
- $P = Current directory of default drive
- $S = Space
- $T = Current time
- $V = OS/2 version number
-
- SET HELP=C:\OS2\HELP;C:\OS2\HELP\TUTORIAL;
-
- Tells OS/2 where the help files are located. OS/2 will only look for a program's
- help files in the path shown.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- SET GLOSSARY=C:\OS2\HELP\GLOSS;
-
- Tells OS/2 where the Glossary file and Master Help file is located.
-
- SET DIRCMD=/ON /P
-
- This is the OS/2 equivalent of the DIR command. In DOS 5.x you can tell DIR how
- to present file information. To do this in OS/2, use the undocumented DIRCMD com-
- mand. 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 & 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 lowercase.
- /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:
- N = alphabetize by file name
- -N = reverse-alphabetizes by name
- E = alphabetize by extension
- -E = reverse-alphabetizes 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 each full screen of files 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 ommitted.
-
- PRIORITY_DISK_IO=YES
-
- This command determines whether applications running in the foreground have prior-
- ity access to disks. The default is YES. If you want all applications to have
- equal access to your disks, then change this statement to NO.
-
- PRIORITY=DYNAMIC
-
- This is another OS/2 only command and does not have to be in your CONFIG.SYS. The
- default is PRIORITY=DYNAMIC.
-
- 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 priori-
- ty 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.
-
- FILES=20
-
- 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.
-
- DEVICE=C:\OS2\TESTCFG.SYS
-
- 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 in-
- stallations. Because of the latter, this line should not be deleted.
-
- DEVICE=C:\OS2\PMDD.SYS
-
- PMDD.SYS makes the Presentation Manager work and OS/2 will not start unless you
- have this line in your config file.
-
- BUFFERS=30
-
- Tells OS/2 how many disk buffers to use. Range is from 1 to 100. Each buffer
- takes up to 512 bytes of RAM. 30 is the default and usually works well.
-
- 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 in-
- formation 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 Mel Hallerman of 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."
-
- 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. Be careful
- about using a lower number unless you only have 4 meg of RAM, then you may wish to
- set BUFFERS to 20. This gives you some more valuable memory.
-
- IOPL=YES
-
- An OS/2 command that, when set to YES, lets programs that need to bypass OS/2 and
- work directly with hardware devices, do so. YES means that all programs can ac-
- cess the hardware directly. NO means that no program can access the hardware di-
- rectly. You can also specify a list of programs that are allowed to work directly
- with the hardware. For example, IOPL=WS.EXE,Q.EXE,FLIST.EXE would allow only
- these three programs to access hardware directly.
-
- DISKCACHE=256,LW
-
- If you are using FAT file system, this command sets up a RAM disk cache. The
- DISKCACHE line noted here sets up a 256k cache with lazy writing enabled. If you
- don't want lazy write enabled, then remove ",LW". The default cache size is 64k,
- which I feel is to small. If you have the RAM, increase the size to improve sys-
-
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-
-
-
- tem performance, but don't get carried away to use to much of your RAM and there-
- fore hurt performance. If you want CHKDSK to automatically check your startup
- partition (usually C), then add this switch to end of the DISKCACHE command: AC:n
- where n is your startup partition, e.g. AC:C.
-
- 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.
-
- MAXWAIT=3
-
- 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 for-
- ever while some other program hogs the system. You can set MAXWAIT from 1 to 255
- seconds. The default is 3 seconds.
-
- MEMMAN=SWAP,MOVE,PROTECT
-
- 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 the data back into memory when needed. This is called
- virtual memory. If you only have 4 meg of memory or less (Get MORE memory fast!
- You need 8 meg minimum with OS/2 2.0.) and you will see lots of disk activity
- while you are working with your system, this is the process that is more than
- likely occurring. It will slow down your system and cause your hard disk to frag-
- ment quicker than normal.
-
- This OS/2 command controls this process. The syntax is MEMMAN=s,m,PROTECT where
- s=SWAP or NOSWAP; m=MOVE or NOMOVE; and PROTECT allows memory compaction with pro-
- tected dynamic link libraries. The default is to have virtual memory on. To turn
- off virtual memory, which is NOT recommended, the config.sys line should read:
- MEMMAN=NOSWAP,NOMOVE. WARNING: IF YOU CHANGE MEMMAN=NOSWAP, YOUR SYSTEM MAY NOT
- REBOOT. USE CAUTION.
-
- The MOVE/NOMOVE parameter has no effect under OS/2 2.0 and is provided for version
- OS/2 1.3 compatibility only.
-
- SWAPPATH=C:\OS2\SYSTEM 512 2000
-
- As noted above, OS/2 can allocate more memory than it actually has available. It
- does this by swapping data to a 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 growth before it stops con-
- suming hard disk space. The size is stated in the negative. In other words, if
- you have the mmm set to 512 and you have a 105 meg hard drive, the SWAPPER.DAT
- file will not grow larger than 105meg minus 512k. The variable nnn is the start-
- ing size of the SWAPPER.DAT file. In the config.sys line above, the starting size
- is 2000k or 2 meg.
-
- BREAK=OFF
-
- 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 programs 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.
-
- THREADS=256
-
- 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.
-
- On systems with only 4 meg of RAM, set THREADS to 128 to free up memory.
-
- PRINTMONBUFSIZE=134,134,134
-
- 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.
-
- If you are not using LPT2 or LPT3, then do not set up a buffer for them and use
- these bytes to increase the buffer for LPT1 (PRINTMONBUFSIZE=402,0,0) which should
- increase the speed of printing. Note that you still need to define a buffer for
- LPT2 and LPT3, but you indicate a "0" (zero) byte size. You will get an error
- message at startup if you don't.
-
- On systems with only 4 meg of RAM that are not using LPT2 or LPT3 should leave
- LPT1 at 134 and reduce ports 2 and 3 to "0". This will free up a little memory.
-
- COUNTRY=001,C:\OS2\SYSTEM\COUNTRY.SYS
-
- Customizes your system for the country you wish to use. It establishes which de-
- faults to use when it comes to decimal separators, date and time formats, currency
- symbols, etc. The syntax is COUNTRY=xxx,PATH,FILE NAME. xxx is a three-digit
- code number that tells what country to use. The number is usually (but not al-
- ways) the same as the telephone international dialing prefix for the country de-
- sired. Several example: United States=001, United Kingdom=044, France=033, Ger-
- many=049, Korea=082.
-
- SET KEYS=ON
-
- When using the Command-line, KEYS tells CMD.EXE whether to remember previous key-
- strokes so they can be recalled with the up arrow key. OS/2 maintains a 64k buff-
- er for storing keystroke history. KEYS can be ON or OFF.
-
- On systems with only 4 meg of RAM, SET KEYS to OFF, you need the memory more than
- this feature.
-
- REM SET DELDIR=C:\DELETE,512;
-
- 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 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.
-
- BASEDEV=PRINT01.SYS
- BASEDEV=IBM1FLPY.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 process. 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.
- IBM2SCSI.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.
-
- SET BOOKSHELF=C:\GAMATECH;C:\OS2\BOOK
-
- 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 GAM-
- MATECH utilities installed on my system which contains on-line documentation.
-
- SET EPATH=C:\OS2\APPS
-
- According to Mel Hallerman of IBM, EPATH is used by the Enhanced Editor (EPM.EXE),
- but IBMs Redbook #1 indicates that EPATH is used by VIEW.EXE.
-
- DEVICE=C:\OS2\APPS\SASYNCDB.SYS
-
- This device driver loads asynchronous communications support for the PM Terminal
- applet. If you do not plan to use PM Terminal (Its not much of a program so I'm
- not sure why any one would to use it.), REM this statement to save a little memo-
- ry.
-
- PROTECTONLY=NO
-
- 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.
-
- SHELL=C:\OS2\MDOS\COMMAND.COM C:\OS2\MDOS /P
-
- 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.
-
- You can also load and run other command processor's such as 4DOS. To do so, just
- put 4DOS in the MDOS directory and change the SHELL line to read 4DOS.COM instead
- of COMMAND.COM. You will also need to add another line to your config.sys: SET
- COMSPEC=C:\OS2\MDOS\4DOS.COM.
-
- FCBS=16,8
-
- File control blocks (FCBS) give information about a file to DOS. This config.sys
- 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".
-
- RMSIZE=640
-
- This is a DOS command and sets the amount of memory available for DOSs use. The
- maximum is 640 kilobytes. Since many DOS programs require 640k, its best to have
- RMSIZE set to 640, but if you have only DOS programs which take less than 640k,
- say 512k, and you could use extra RAM for OS/2, then set the value at 512 or
- something less.
-
- DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VEMM.SYS
-
- VEMM.SYS lets DOS programs use expanded memory unless you override it by changing
- a DOS programs SETTINGS.
-
- DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VMOUSE.SYS
-
- Identifies and loads the mouse driver to let you use a mouse with DOS. Mouse sup-
- port for OS/2 is loaded below.
-
- DOS=LOW,NOUMB
-
- This is a standard DOS command that lets you control how DOS uses memory. The
- OS/2 default is DOS=LOW,NOUMB and is the best setting for it conserves memory for
- OS/2. DOS=HIGH (or including ,UMB) reduces available memory for OS/2, but in-
- creases the available memory in EVERY DOS session. Since few DOS sessions need
- maximum memory, and for those that do you can move DOS HIGH by changing the DOS
- settings for that program, there is really no need to change the default.
-
- DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VXMS.SYS /UMB
-
- VXMS.SYS is a device driver that provides Extended Memory management to DOS ses-
- sions. XMS allows DOS programs to access more than one meg of memory.
-
- DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VCDROM.SYS
-
- Your config.sys may contain various device drivers for various DOS related devices
- based upon your systems hardware configuration. This is a CDROM device driver.
- If you don't have a CDROM installed, then you should REM this drive to save a lit-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- tle RAM. Remember, the more RAM OS/2 has, the better it runs.
-
- DEVINFO=SCR,VGA,C:\OS2\VIOTBL.DCP
-
- This command prepares your monitor to display information based upon the CODEPAGE
- specification. VIOTBL.DCP is the file that contains the video fonts for display-
- ing characters for each of the CODEPAGES supported by OS/2. See the CODEPAGE com-
- mand line below.
-
- DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VVGA.SYS
-
- Your config.sys may contain various device drivers for various DOS related devices
- based upon your systems hardware configuration. This is a VGA video driver.
-
- DEVICE=C:\OS2\POINTDD.SYS
-
- POINTDD.SYS is the file that contains information on what the mouse pointer looks
- like and draws it on you screen. It is required to make your mouse work correct-
- ly. I think it would be nice if someone could write a few different POINTDD.SYS
- files with different looking mouse points.
-
- DEVICE=C:\OS2\MOUSE.SYS SERIAL=COM1 QSIZE=10
-
- 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 ac-
- tions faster than your system can handle them.
-
- DEVICE=C:\OS2\COM.SYS
-
- 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 point, then add the next line below.
- This line MUST appear after any driver that uses the communications ports. Use
- COM02.SYS if you have an IBM PS/2 model 90 or 95.
-
- DEVICE=C:\OS2\COM.SYS (3,3E8,4) (4,2E8,3)
-
- This line adds support for COM3 and COM4 in OS/2 at location 3E8 with IRQ 4 and
- 2E8 with IRQ 3 respectively. Instead of adding this line to provide support, you
- can just add (3,3E8,4) (4,2e8,3) to the DEVICE=C:\OS2\COM.SYS line above.
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- DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VCOM.SYS
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- Lets you use the communications ports for DOS sessions.
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- CODEPAGE=437,850
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- Lets you use the alphabet of various countries and languages. The syntax is CODE-
- PAGE=ppp,sss, where ppp is the number of the primary national alphabet to be used
- and sss is a secondary alphabet number. 437=US English alphabet and 850=multina-
- tional 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 include Turkish (857), Portuguese (860), Iceland (861) and
- Nordic (865). Japanese (932 & 942), Korean (934 & 944) and Chinese (938 & 948)
- require a special version of OS/2 and special hardware.
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- If there is not a CODEPAGE statement in your config.sys, your keyboard will use an
- alphabet based on the COUNTRY statement, but your screen and printer will use
- their built-in defaults.
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- DEVINFO=KBD,US,C:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP
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- Tells the keyboard which international character set to use and where to find the
- file KEYBOARD.DCP which translates keystrokes. The syntax is
- DEVINFO=KBD,cc,DRIVE,PATH,FILENAME. cc equals the character set to be used, e.g.
- US = United States, UK = United Kingdom, BE = Belgium, FR = France, GR = Germany,
- etc.
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