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  1.                                                                                 
  2. Documentation of QCONFIG                                                        
  3.                                                                                 
  4. The philosophy of QCONFIG is to try and determine every aspect                  
  5. of machine hardware in the system.  The angle of attack is                      
  6. through BIOS, Dos Int 21h, Device Drivers, and even straight                    
  7. from known memory locations.  Whatever gets the job done is                     
  8. done.  Of course, it is best to start with BIOS and work                        
  9. down the path of unreliable results.                                            
  10.                                                                                 
  11. We have tried to best make the code machine independent.  It should             
  12. not matter which DOS or OS/2 DOS version is being run.  It also                 
  13. should not matter if you are on a 8088 or a 80486.                              
  14.                                                                                 
  15. There have been concerns about information scrolling off the screen.            
  16. Right now, there are two ways to avoid this.                                    
  17.                                                                                 
  18. Either                                                                          
  19.                                                                                 
  20. 1.  QCONFIG -P                (pause option. will stop between screens)         
  21.                                                                                 
  22. or                                                                              
  23.                                                                                 
  24. 2.  QCONFIG -O                (this command will re-direct output to            
  25.                                the file QCONFIG.DAT)                            
  26.                                                                                 
  27. The first technique is good if you just want to view the info                   
  28. one screen at a time.  The second technique works best for                      
  29. keeping a permanent copy and being able to browse/edit the results.             
  30.                                                                                 
  31. Options                                                                         
  32. -------                                                                         
  33. -?           lists options (help)                                               
  34.                                                                                 
  35. -A           list all supported Microchannel adapters                           
  36.              (can be used with the -O option to redirect to file)               
  37.                                                                                 
  38. -D           list more detailed QCONFIG information                             
  39.              includes : logical drives, adapter configuration for MC,           
  40.                         model, submodel, revision, bios date,                   
  41.                         fixed disk sectors/heads/cylinders.                     
  42.                                                                                 
  43. -F           full screen view of QCONFIG output.                                
  44.              don't use with -O or -P                                            
  45.                                                                                 
  46. -M           list all recognized machines by Model, SubModel and Revisio        
  47.              (can be used with the -O option to redirect to file)               
  48.                                                                                 
  49. -O           redirect output to QCONFIG.OUT                                     
  50.                                                                                 
  51.                                                                                 
  52. -Ofilename   redirect output to file                                            
  53.                                                                                 
  54.              For example:                                                       
  55.                                                                                 
  56.              QCONFIG -Ops2data.fil                                              
  57.                                                                                 
  58.              would redirect the output of QCONFIG to ps2data.fil.               
  59.                                                                                 
  60. -P           pause option. pauses output between screens                        
  61.              do not use with -O or -F                                           
  62.                                                                                 
  63.                                                                                 
  64. key=value    define key with value for machine info output                      
  65.              There is a limit of 10 keys at present.                            
  66.                                                                                 
  67.              For example:                                                       
  68.                                                                                 
  69.              QCONFIG User="Jeff Muir" "Location Site"=Boca                      
  70.                                                                                 
  71.              Output would include:                                              
  72.                                                                                 
  73.              User            : Jeff Muir                                        
  74.              Location Site   : Boca                                             
  75.                                                                                 
  76.