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- From: jbodnar@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (John Bodnar)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: FCBS in DOS sessions
- Message-ID: <83205@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 00:23:16 GMT
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- Reply-To: jbodnar@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (John Bodnar)
- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
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- According to srcsip!tcscs!zeta:
- >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)?
-
- Yep, you can set DOS_FCBS to 1 and DOS_FCBS_KEEP to 0 since most DOS
- software no longer uses file control blocks. If you want to have this be
- the default when you create new DOS objects, add a FCBS=1,0 line in your
- CONFIG.SYS.
-
- >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).
-
- Set VIDEO_MODE_RESTRICTION to CGA or MONO. This will give you around 730K
- free in DOS, but will preclude you from using programs requiring better
- than CGA graphics.
-
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