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- From: 5692330@mcimail.com (Robert Gammon)
- Subject: Re: FCBS in DOS sessions
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- Organization: Texas Instruments Materials and Controls Group
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- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 15:11:56 GMT
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- In article <5s5PTB5w165w@tcscs.UUCP> zeta%tcscs@idss.nwa.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:
-
- >> This may seeem a dumb question, but the online help has not been as useful as
- >> I had hoped.
- >>
- >> In Dos Settings there are two settings for FCBS, by default at 16 and 8.
- >>
- >> From memory, FCBS was used to help backward compatibility to DOS 2.0 back
- >> in the newer DOS versions. Is this right?
- >>
- >> Is there any reason to not move the FCBS to 0 and 0 (or 1 and 1 whatever their
- >> minimal settings can be)?
- >>
- >>
- >> Also, is there a way to add more conventional memory in a DOS session, I had
- >> heard rumors of being able to have more than the 640 by doing something,
- >> but I don't know what that was (or even if it is possible).
- >>
- >> Thanks in advance
- >>
- >> Greg
- >>
- >> P.s. Can anyone recommend an excellent book for OS/2 that covers most of the
- >> things in OS/2 and that is not almost a direct printing of the online help?
- >>
- >> Thanks
- >>
- >>
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- No info on FCBS, but can do on Memory. I have gotten up to 723K free DOS
- memory with the following DOS Settings.
-
- DOS_HIGH ON
- DOS_UMB OFF
- VIDEO_MODE_RESTRICTION CGA
-
- All other settings are at their defaults (the first two may also be defaults).
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- Robert Gammon
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