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- DEVICE
- Allows MS-DOS to load and utilize a device driver
- See also <ANSI.SYS> <DISPLAY.SYS> <DRIVER.SYS> <KEYBOARD.SYS>
- <VDISK>
-
- COMMAND TYPE: System Configuration VERSION: 2.0 and up
-
- USE: DEVICE = [d:][path]filename [arguments]
-
- d: path filename specifies the file to use as a device driver.
-
- All DEVICE drivers must be included in the <CONFIG.SYS> file to operate
- properly. Any arguments needed by the individual drivers are
- specified following the filename. These are not commands which are
- available at the DOS level.
-
- The following device drivers are standard:
-
- <ANSI.SYS> gives screen control using ansi escape sequences
- <DISPLAY.SYS> use code page switching on EGA, LCD and PS/2 displays
- <DRIVER.SYS> create logical DOS devices for extra physical disc
- drives
- COUNTRY.SYS loaded automatically by DOS to handle country specific
- tasks
- <PRINTER.SYS> provides code page switching on printer ports, for
- printers supporting multiple code pages (IBM only)
- <KEYBOARD.SYS> (DOS 4.x) loaded by DOS to handle country specific
- keyboard interface
- VDISK.SYS (DOS 2.x,3.x) Allows you to use part of memory as a
- virtual disk drive.
- RAMDRIVE.SYS (DOS 4.x) replaces VDISK.SYS for DOS 4
- SMARTDRV.SYS (DOS 4.x) disk cache program to store recently used disc
- sectors in memory for faster access
- EMM386.SYS (DOS 4.x) Allows 80386 machines with extended memory to
- emulate expanded memory (LIM EMS 4.0)
- HIMEM.SYS (DOS 4.x) Extended memory (XMS 2.0) driver to allow
- 80286/80386 based machines to access extended memory
- XMA2EMS.SYS (DOS 4.x) Expanded memory manager
-