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- From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
- Subject: Re: FCBS in DOS sessions
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.042843.3305@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 04:28:43 GMT
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- Gregory Youngblood (zeta%tcscs@idss.nwa.com) wrote:
- > 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)?
-
- It is my understanding that few programs use FCB's. They allow single file
- operations to be done on groups of characters as they can be specified
- using wildcards. Apparently DOS delete/erase uses them. I have set mine to
- 1 & 1 I think, just in case. I can't see any reason to use more.
-
- >
- >
- > 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).
- >
-
- You'll probably have to limit your display resolution to mono or CGA.
-
- --
- Tom J Parry.
- Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
-