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STACKER NOTE STACKER NOTE
Subject: COUNTRY CODE and STACKER 3.0 CREATE
STACKER NOTE TEC040 - 12/04/92
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Background.
Using several country codes with the COUNTRY.SYS command in
the CONFIG.SYS causes two unexpected Stacker 3.0 errors.
The COUNTRY.SYS line in the CONFIG.SYS looks similar to the
following line:
COUNTRY=046,, C:\DOS\COUNTRY.SYS
This example, using the first parameter 046, sets up the
Swedish country code which will cause the following line to
appear during SETUP:
Create error: invalid numeric entry (/^R=2.0)
followed by,
Create error #1--invalid parameter
The second scenario involves SDEFRAG using the /GP switch
and choosing the option to "Increase the Drive Size". This
action, because of the country code, will pass an invalid
parameter to the CREATE command. The results, transparent
to the user, will most likely be a random, unexpected final
compression ratio.
The following country codes, denoted with the X, will work
properly with Stacker 3.0. The remaining country codes use
a comma as a decimal separator and will have an invalid
parameter passed to CREATE during these two circumstances.
Country Decimal Stacker 3.0
Code Country Separator Compatible
______ _________________ _______ _________
1 United States . X
1 Canada (English) . X
2 Canada (French) ,
3 Latin America . X
31 Netherlands ,
32 Belgium ,
33 France ,
34 Spain ,
39 Italy ,
41 Switzerland . X
41 Switzerland . X
44 United Kingdom . X
45 Denmark ,
46 Sweden ,
47 Norway ,
49 Germany ,
61 Australia . X
81 Japan* . X
82 Korea* . X
86 Taiwan* . X
88 PRC* . X
351 Portugal ,
358 Finland ,
785 Arabic ,
972 Israel . X
* DOS version 4 only
Installation Procedure.
1) Edit the CONFIG.SYS file, placing the word REM at the beginning of the
line containing COUNTRY.SYS.
2) Reboot the machine.
3) Run SETUP again.
4) After SETUP is complete, edit the CONFIG.SYS file to remove the REM
from the line edited in (1).
5) Reboot the machine.
NOTE: The only further concern should be when the above SDEFRAG /GP
option is taken whereas the COUNTRY.SYS line would need to be
remarked out again during the SDEFRAG operation.
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Copyright 1992, Stac Electronics