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- STACKER NOTE Stac Electronics Technical Note
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- Subject: QEMM386 OPTIMIZE and STACKER version 1.x.
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- Tech016 - 2/20/92
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- Note: This procedure may be used with Stacker 2.0, however, it
- is recommended that you use the SSWAP upgrade. See tech030.
-
- Introduction:
-
- Quarterdeck's QEMM program allows device drivers (for
- example,STACKER.COM) and TSR programs to be loaded into upper
- memory. This package also includes a utility called OPTIMIZE to
- organize the loading of drivers into upper memory. However,
- OPTIMIZE will not run as expected when the boot drive is swapped
- in your Stacker installation.
-
- 1. During this procedure, you will need to temporarily alter two
- of the files on your system. These changes may cause other
- programs to not run properly. DO NOT try to run any other
- programs until this procedure is completed and OPTIMIZE has
- finished its work.
-
- 2. STACKER will work with OPTIMIZE, but the drive swapping
- feature must be temporarily disabled. OPTIMIZE expects the
- CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files to be on the C: drive.
-
- 3.On a system where the uncompressed drive (usually drive C:) is
- not swapped, OPTIMIZE will work properly when the necessary QEMM
- files are on the boot drive.
-
- 4. Loading drivers or programs into upper memory requires a block
- in upper memory at least as large as the amount of memory
- required to initialize the driver or program (this is usually
- larger than the 'resident' size of the driver or program).
-
- 5.If you use /EMS with STACKER 2.0 and the QEMM 6.0 STEALTH
- option, make sure to add DBF=2 to the QEMM device driver line.
- For example: Device=c:\qemm\qemm386.sys RAM ST:M DBF=2
-
- Procedure:
-
- 1. In the CONFIG.SYS file, locate the line(s) which resemble
- DEVICE=C:\STACKER\SSWAP.COM C:\STACVOL.DSK /SYNC Using a text
- editor, add "REM " (without the quotes) in front of each of those
- lines. For example: REM Device=C:\STACKER\SSWAP.COM .......
-
- 2. In the AUTOEXEC.BAT file on the UNCOMPRESSED (boot) drive,
- exchange all references between the uncompressed drive and the
- Stacker volume.
-
- For example: If the C: and D: drives are swapped, change all
- occurrences of C: to D: and from D: to C: in the AUTOEXEC.BAT on
- the D: drive.
-
- 3. Be sure that the following QEMM programs reside in a QEMM sub-
- directory on the UNCOMPRESSED (boot) drive; OPTIMIZE will look
- for them there:
-
- QEMM386.SYS (or QEMM.SYS if you are running QEMM 50/60
- or QEMM-386 version 5.0)
- OPTIMIZE.COM
- LOADHI.SYS
- LOADHI.COM
- LOGOPT.COM (not needed for QEMM ver 6.x)
- TESTBIOS.COM
- BUFFERS.COM (if you are using a version of DOS 3.x)
- RSTRCFG.SYS
- MCA.ADL (if you are using a microchannel
- computer)
- WINHIRAM.VXD (if you are planning on running Windows
- 3.0 in enhanced mode)
- WINSTLTH.VXD (if you are planning on running the
- STEALTH option)
-
- 4. Reboot the system to make sure the drives and files are set up
- correctly. You may need to continue to edit the AUTOEXEC.BAT file
- and reboot until the the system boots without error. Typical
- errors are "File not found" or "Bad command or filename".
-
- NOTE: At this point, do not try to run any other programs
- on your system until the changes to the CONFIG.SYS and
- AUTOEXEC.BAT files have been reversed. You will be prompted to do
- this in Step 6) below.
-
- 5. When you get the system booting with no errors, you may
- change to the QEMM sub-directory on the uncompressed (boot) drive
- and run OPTIMIZE. Refer to the QEMM manual for information on
- running the OPTIMIZE program.
-
- 6. When OPTIMIZE has completed, restore the AUTOEXEC.BAT file and
- the CONFIG.SYS file on the uncompressed drive to their pre-
- OPTIMIZE status (ie, reverse the changes made in Step 1) and Step
- 2) above).
-
- 7. Reboot the system a final time to load the changes to
- CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT into memory.
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