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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Problems with SMARTDRIVE and PATH
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.223542.29025@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1993Jan9.140857.46260@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:35:42 GMT
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- In <1993Jan9.140857.46260@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> rsl11@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
-
- >Hello there,
-
- > I have the following questions:
- >1. TO simulate disk cache with dos and windows you can either put the
- >statements
-
- Uh, this doesn't "simulate" disk cache; this IS a disk cache.
-
- >a) devicehigh=c:\smartdrv.sys in the config.sys file or
- >b) loadhigh=c:\smartdrv.exe in the autoexec.bat file
-
- This is not an 'either/or' situation. The first is how you do it if
- you are using Windows 3.0 -- the second is the cache from Windows 3.1,
- and you shouldn't be using a loadhigh statement with it, as it will
- load itself high.
-
- >What is the difference between the 2 statements?
-
- Other than the preceding, you mean?
-
- >Also, how much cache would be recommended to have with a total of 4MB ram when
- >you run windows?
-
- As little as possible (like 512k or so). In my opinion, 4 MB isn't
- really enough to run Windows very well, if you are doing anything with
- it.
-
- >2. I have aproblem with the path statement of dos.
- >If I type the following statement in the dos prompt
- >PATH = C:\DOS; C:\WINDOWS; C:\STACKER;
- >in capital letters it works but if I put it in a batch file such as the
- >autoexec.bat file it tells me "Too many parameters". Does anybody have any
- >ideas as to what the problem might be?
-
- I don't have my documentation handy, but the preceding looks wrong.
- Check in the manual under 'PATH' (or if you can't find it, mail me and
- I'll answer it from home, where I have a manual near my desk). One
- thing wrong is that final ';' on the line. The case shouldn't matter,
- by the way.
-
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- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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