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- From: "quarterdeck canada" <quarterdeck.canada@canrem.com>
- Subject: dv386 and drdos (#2)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.3880.4169@dosgate>
- Reply-To: "quarterdeck canada" <quarterdeck.canada@canrem.com>
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
- Distribution: comp
- Date: 23 Jan 93 19:23:18 EST
- Lines: 103
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- (Continued from the previous message)
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- because OPTIMIZE makes not attempt to load them high. DR-DOS can load
- them high itself
-
- 3) HIBUFFERS is the DR-DOS command to load buffers into the
- HMA. It will use the HMA even if the kernel is not loaded in the
- HMA. The BUFFERS command of DR-DOS causes the buffers to be loaded
- into UMBs (If HIDOS=ON is set.) Each buffer takes an individual
- UMB. The BUFFERS.COM program from Quarterdeck works with DR-DOS;
- using the LOADHI.COM program with BUFFERS.COM will cause the buffers
- to be loaded into a single UMB. Use HIBUFFERS only if you are
- loading the DR-DOS kernel into the HMA, otherwise the HMA will be
- used for nothing but buffers.
-
- 4) HILOAD, HIDEVICE, and HINSTALL are the DR-DOS internal
- commands that load TSRs and device drivers high. They do not work
- with QEMM-386, QEMM-50/60, or QRAM. LOADHI.COM, LOADHI.SYS, and
- INSTALL=LOADHI.COM/TSR, which, respectively, perform the same
- functions, should be used instead.
-
- 5) SSTORDRV.SYS is a disk-compression utility that DR bundles
- with DR-DOS. It loads part of itself high. The remainder cannot be
- loaded high, either with QEMM-386, QEMM-50/60, QRAM, or DR-DOS's
- EMM386.SYS. If you use EMM386.SYS it merely loads low without
- notification; if you use QEMM-386 and LOADHI.SYS it does not load at
- all. OPTIMIZE will try to load it high, this must be reversed, or
- as an alternative, SSTORDRV.SYS may be entered in the file
- OPTIMIZE.EXC, keeping OPTIMIZE from trying to load it high.
-
- 6) There are other DR-DOS utilities that load themselves high,
- such as SUPER PC-KWIK and DELWATCH. They are polite enough to allow
- LOADHI.COM to load them high in the same manner as they themselves
- would load themselves high; this allows them to be included by
- OPTIMIZE in its calculations. This is done automatically and does
- not require any attention from the user.
-
- OPTIMIZE
- Brilliant Quarterdeck technicians have discovered an easier method for
- using OPTIMIZE with SUPERSTORE. See below.
-
- 1) There is a new command, CHAIN, in DR-DOS. This command
- allows the CONFIG.SYS to pass control to another CONFIG.SYS-like
- file. DR-DOS uses it on installation if you choose to install
- SUPERSTORE. OPTIMIZE does not follow this passing of control to
- another file. If you are using CHAIN you must combine the two (or
- more) CONFIG.SYS (or CONFIG.SYS-like) files into one for the
- duration of the OPTIMIZation process.
-
- 2) The kernel of DR-DOS, sstordrv.sys, and buffers load
- themselves high. OPTIMIZE does not take the High RAM used by self-
- loaders high into consideration in its calculations so this can
- throw it off making the best configuration. See the READ.ME file
- for information on how best to accommodate self-high-loaders.
- Quarterdeck's BUFFERS.COM program works with DR-DOS 6 and OPTIMIZE
- will automatically try to use it to load BUFFERS high. This is
- preferable because the memory used by BUFFERS will be included in
- OPTIMIZE's calculations.
-
- 3) SUPERSTORE does work with OPTIMIZE, but SUPERSTORE adds a
- device driver to your CONFIG.SYS called DEVSWAP.COM. The line
- typically reads:
-
- DEVICE=C:\DRDOS\DEVSWAP.COM
-
- DEVSWAP.COM is a non-resident program that switches the drive
- designations. This is a convenience if you installed SUPERSTORE on a
- drive that already had programs so you don't have to re-write your
- batch files and reconfigure your software to run from a different
- drive. See your DR-DOS manual for information on the use of
- DEVSWAP.COM. Most commonly your hard disk originally was drive C:.
- SUPERSTORE creates a new, compressed drive, to which the letter D:
- is assigned. DEVSWAP.COM switches these assignments. This will be
- presumed for the rest of this section of this explanation of how to
- use OPTIMIZE with SUPERSTORE. If you are compressing more than one
- physical drive you must modify this information in consideration of
- the compressed drives created and designations swapped.
- When running OPTIMIZE, DEVSWAP.COM must be remarked out or
- removed from the CONFIG.SYS. Also all references to drives C: in
- the AUTOEXEC.BAT and in the CONFIG.SYS after the DEVSWAP.COM line
- need to be changed to drive D:. Conversely, all references to drive
- D: should be changed to drive C:.
-
- The next step is to create a QEMM sub-directory on the
- uncompressed drive. This is typically drive D: when the DEVSWAP.COM
- device driver is loaded in your CONFIG.SYS. The following files
- need to be in the QEMM sub-directory in order to run OPTIMIZE
- properly: QEMM386.SYS (or QEMM.SYS if you are running QEMM-50/60 or
- QEMM-386 version 5.0, or QRAM.SYS if you are loading QRAM),
- OPTIMIZE.COM, LOADHI.SYS, LOADHI.COM, LOGOPT.COM, BUFFERS.COM (if
- you are using DOS 2.x or 3.x), RSTRCFG.SYS, MCA.ADL (if you are
- running on a Microchannel machine), and WINHIRAM.VXD if you are
- planning on running Windows 3.0 in enhanced mode.
- Once you have done this, you should reboot before running
- OPTIMIZE so that the drives are set up correctly. Now you will be
- able to run OPTIMIZE normally. After OPTIMIZE has run, you may edit
-
- (Continued in the next message)
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