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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 19:31:14 EST
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- From: "Gerald W. Schlabach" <GSCHLABA@IRISHVMA.BITNET>
- Subject: DR DOS set up
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene
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- Having received a few requests for a DR DOS setup that gives 625K of
- conventional memory on a 486sx machine with 2 megs of memory, I am now posting
- a version of my CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Special thanks, again to
- Ted Parkinson, whose files I modified for myself.
-
- Look for "inter-linear" REM notes commenting and clarifying a few things.
- A special note: I couldn't figure out how Ted had gotten his 625K until I
- noticed that I still had a disk cache program in my autoexec.bat that Windows
- had put there (SMARTDRV.EXE). DR DOS gives you its own cache, Super PC Kwick,
- so stay with one or the other. If some other reader wants to tell us why
- one is better than the other, that is welcome. The memory usage seems
- equivalent, and I can't tell a difference in hard disk access time. But
- having run an XT until this week, everything still seems fast!
-
- Gerald Schlabach
- schlabach.1@nd.edu
-
- CONFIG.SYS: ------------------------------------------------------------
-
- DEVICE=C:\DRDOS\EMM386.SYS /f=auto /k=auto /b=ffff /r=auto
- SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /P /E:512
- hidevice=c:\drdos\vdisk.sys 312 /e
- HIDEVICE=C:\DRDOS\ANSI.SYS
- HIDEVICE=C:\MOUSE\MOUSE.SYS
- BREAK=ON
- HIBUFFERS=8
- FILES=30
- FCBS=2,2
- LASTDRIVE=U
- HISTORY=ON
- FASTOPEN=250
- HIDOS=ON
- STACKS=9,256
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- AUTOEXEC.BAT: ----------------------------------------------------------
-
- @ECHO OFF
- REM You may prefer a different prompt, of course!
- PROMPT $D $T$H$H$H$_$P$G
- REM The DRDOSBEG and DRDOSEND labels tell the SETUP program which
- REM statements it should process. Put any additional statements for
- REM DR DOS between these two labels. Any other statements e.g. for
- REM other operating systems should be placed outside the labels.
- :DRDOSBEG
- REM You will certainly want to modify this path:
- PATH C:\;C:\NB;C:\DRDOS;C:\UTILS;C:\WINDOWS;C:\KERMIT;C:\PRO;C:\NBACKUP
- VERIFY OFF
- SET TEMP=C:\TEMP
- SET DRDOSCFG=C:\
- share.exe /L:20 /mu
- DISKMAP C:
- REM Ted Parkinson has a plus not a minus in the MEMMAX line that follows.
- REM I could not get TASKMAX to load until I changed this. Experiment.
- MEMMAX -u >nul
- superpck /A+ /S:384
- REM the parameter /S:256 or 384 after above line gives some extended memory
- REM extra for dictionary etc.
- REM The /L parameter that follows may or may not make a difference.
- Hiload taskmax /l:640
- delwatch c:
- mode con: rate=28 delay=1
- :DRDOSEND
- :ask
- cls
- REM I have cute lines around the next ECHO sections, but removed them
- REM for sending over Bitnet!
- ECHO press one:
- ECHO 1) Windows
- ECHO 2) Nota Bene
- ECHO 3) dos prompt
- switch win, nb, end
- :nb
- cls
- REM See additional file below. This is to install the set of programs that
- REM I regularly switch back and forth from.
- nbset
- REM You may have installed a different hot key. Re-write previous line.
- goto ask
- :win
- WIN
- goto ask
- :end
- cls
- ECHO from now on, type:
- ECHO WIN for Windows
- ECHO NBSET for Nota Bene plus
- ECHO NB for Nota Bene only
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Included as a sample:
-
- NBSET.BAT: -------------------------------------------------------------
-
- @echo off
- cls
- c:
- chdir \
- echo Loading Nota Bene...
- taskmax /c c:\nb\nb
- echo Loading Kermit...
- taskmax /c c:\kermit\kermit
- echo Loading concordance...
- taskmax /c c:\bible.kjv\kjv
- cls
- echo To begin, use task
- echo switching hot-key:
- echo Shift-Esc
-