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- <h_ SYSTEM
- HELP: SYSTEM SUBMENU
-
- Selecting this submenu will allow you to select displays
- of information about your system's hardware and software
- configuration.
-
- Available Information:
-
- - Basic System Information - CPU, BIOS, etc.
- - Contents of CONFIG.SYS file
- - Contents of AUTOEXEC.BAT file
- - Installed hardware adapters
- - Selectable fixed drive types in your BIOS ROM
- - CMOS submenu:
- - Summary of basic information stored in CMOS RAM
- (Date, time, memory size, drive types)
- - Detailed display of each CMOS RAM location
- <h_ SYSTEM Information
- HELP: SYSTEM INFORMATION
-
- This display shows you basic information about your
- system hardware configuration.
-
- Information available:
-
- - Processor Type
- - Math Coprocessor (if installed)
- - BIOS date and manufacturer
- - DOS version installed
- - Number of serial and parallel ports
- - Type of keyboard
- - Number of diskette drives installed
- - Number of hard disk drives installed
- - Size of conventional and extended memory
- - Mouse type (if installed)
- <h_ SYSTEM CONFIG
- HELP: SYSTEM CONFIG
-
- This display shows you the contents of your CONFIG.SYS
- file.
-
- ALLMENU first attempts to locate the CONFIG.SYS file
- on the drive indicated by your COMSPEC environment
- variable. If your environment does not contain an
- identifiable COMSPEC variable, ALLMENU will look for
- CONFIG.SYS in the root directory of the current drive.
-
- If the CONFIG.SYS file could not be read, either the
- CONFIG.SYS file is not on the drive specified in the
- COMSPEC environment variable; or no COMSPEC variable
- could be located and the CONFIG.SYS file was not found
- in the root directory on the current drive.
- <h_ SYSTEM AUTOEXEC
- HELP: SYSTEM AUTOEXEC
-
- This display shows you the contents of your AUTOEXEC.BAT
- file.
-
- ALLMENU first attempts to locate the AUTOEXEC.BAT file
- on the drive indicated by your COMSPEC environment
- variable. If your environment does not contain an
- identifiable COMSPEC variable, ALLMENU will look for
- AUTOEXEC.BAT in the root directory of the current drive.
-
- If the AUTOEXEC.BAT file could not be read, either the
- AUTOEXEC.BAT file is not on the drive specified in the
- COMSPEC environment variable; or no COMSPEC variable
- could be located and the AUTOEXEC.BAT file was not
- found in the root directory on the current drive.
- <h_ SYSTEM Adapters
- HELP: SYSTEM ADAPTERS
-
- This display shows information about the hardware
- adapters installed in your system:
-
- - Primary video adapter and monitor type
- - Secondary video adapter and monitor type
- - Printer ports and their status
- - Serial ports:
- * Baud Rate (Line Speed)
- * Parity
- * Bits per character
- * Stop bits
- * Line status
- * Modem status
- - Diskette drive types
- - Fixed disk drive types
- <h_ SYSTEM DriveTypes
- HELP: System Drive Types
-
- This display shows information about the fixed disk
- drives installed in your system:
-
- - Drive type for setup
- - Number of cylinders
- - Number of heads
- - Precomp cylinder
- - Sectors per track
- - Landing zone cylinder
-
- If your system BIOS supports a drive type table in
- ROM, the disk drive type table information will be
- displayed.
-
- This information may be used to determine the drive
- type number used to install a new drive in your
- system.
- <h_ SYSTEM CMOS
- HELP: CMOS RAM SUBMENU
-
- Selecting this submenu will you to select displays
- showing the contents of the CMOS RAM in your system.
-
-
- Available information:
-
- - Basic
- * Summary of basic information stored in CMOS
- (Date, time, memory size, drive types)
- - Numeric
- * Detailed display of each CMOS RAM location
- <h_ CMOS Basic
- HELP: Basic CMOS Information
-
- This item displays basic system configuration
- information stored in your CMOS memory.
-
- Available information:
-
- - System Date
- - System Time
- - Base Memory Size
- - Extended Memory Size
- - Diskette Drive Types
- - Fixed Drive Types
- <h_ CMOS Numeric
- HELP: Numeric CMOS Information
-
- This item displays the contents of each location
- in CMOS memory. The values are in hexadecimal format.
-
- Each location is itemized with a description of
- what the contents of the location are used for and
- the current value stored in the location.
- <h_ CMOS EXIT
- HELP: No Help Available
- <h_ SYSTEM EXIT
- HELP: No Help Available
- <h_ DOS
- HELP: DOS SUBMENU
-
- This submenu displays information about the DOS
- configuration in your system.
-
- Available information:
-
- - DOS version and memory usage
- - Number of FILES
- - Number of BUFFERS
- - Installed Device Drivers
- - LASTDRIVE configuration and path
- - Current ENVIRONMENT variables
- - DOS MEMORY BLOCK usage
- - Interrupt Vectors submenu
- * Summary of hooked interrupt vectors
- * Detailed usage of interrupt vectors
- <h_ DOS Information
- HELP: DOS Information
-
- This display shows information about DOS as
- installed and configured on your system:
-
- - DOS version
- - Size of DOS kernel
- - Size of installed drivers
- - Size of DOS data area
- - Number of FILES installed
- - Number of FCBS installed
- - Number of BUFFERS installed
- - Number and size of STACKS
- - LASTDRIVE
- - Address and size of DOS memory areas
- <h_ DOS Files
- HELP: DOS Files
-
- This display shows information about DOS Files
- as installed and configured on your system:
-
- - Number of Files in system
- - Number of Files used
- - Number of FCBS in system
- - Number of FCBS used
- - Description of open Files (if any)
- - Description of open FCBS (if any)
- <h_ DOS Buffers
- HELP: DOS Buffers
-
- This display shows information about DOS
- Buffers as installed and configured on your
- system:
-
- - Number of Buffers
- - Number of Buffers used
- - Buffers address in memory
- - Which drive the Buffer is assigned to
- - Buffer Attributes
- - Sector number on disk of Buffer contents
- <h_ DOS Drivers
- HELP: DOS Device Drivers
-
- BIT VALUE ATTRIBUTE DESCRIPTION
- F: C Character Device
- B Block Device
- E: S IOCTL Control Strings Supported
- D: I IBM Block Device
- N Non-IBM Block Device
- B Output Until Busy Command Supported
- B: O Open/Close Supported
- R O/C/+Removable Media
- 6: S IOCTL Control Functions Supported
- 4: * Console Supports Fast Input/Output
- 3: * Clock Device
- 2: * Null Device
- 1: * Current Console Output Device
- 0: * Current Console Input Device
- <h_ DOS Lastdrive
- HELP: DOS Lastdrive
-
- This display shows information about the disk
- drives as installed and configured on your system:
-
- - Drive name
- - Drive attributes
- - Last cluster read
- - Removable media flag
- - Current path on drive
- <h_ DOS Environment
- HELP: DOS Environment
-
- This display shows the values of the environment
- variables set in your DOS environment at the time
- ALLMENU was invoked.
- <h_ DOS BIOS
- HELP: DOS BIOS
-
- This display shows the contents of the DOS BIOS
- DATA area in your system:
-
- - Data field address
-
- - Data field description
-
- - Data field contents
- <h_ DOS Memory Blks
- HELP: DOS Memory Control Blocks
-
- Memory Control Blocks are internal DOS structures used to
- allocate memory by programs. This display shows how your
- system's memory is used and managed.
-
- Each line describes the memory area controlled by one MCB.
-
- START SEGMENT - the segment address of the memory area
- controlled by the MCB ( not including
- the MCB )
- NAME - name of the program using the memory block
- TYPE - type of the block
- BYTES USED - size of area in bytes ( not including
- the MCB )
- PATH - the access path of the program using the
- memory block
- <h_ DOS Interrupts
- HELP: DOS Interrupts
-
- Selecting this submenu will display the contents
- the interrupt vectors in your system.
-
- Available information:
-
- - Summary
- * Summary of interrupt usage by program
-
- - Individual
- * Detailed display of each interrupt vector
- showing what it is used for and which
- program services the interrupt
- <h_ Interrupts Summary
- HELP: Interrupt Summary
-
- The Interrupt Summary display is produced by scanning the
- DOS MCB chain for programs, as well as by examing specific
- areas such as the DOS BIOS, DOS Kernel and the system BIOS
- ROM. For each program or specific memory area, the vector
- table in low RAM (0000:0000H - 0000:0400H) is examined. If
- the interrupt vector points into the area currently being
- processed, it will be assumed to be 'hooked' to that area.
-
- In some cases, this may result in an interrupt vector not
- appearing in the summary list. This can happen if you are
- executing under a multi-tasking environment. Since the
- task manager does not execute as part of your partition,
- any interrupts hooked to the task manager will not appear
- in the summary report for the partition in which ALLMENU
- is executing.
- <h_ Interrupts Individual
- HELP: Interrupt Individual
-
- The Individual Interrupt display is produced by processing
- each interrupt vector in low RAM (0000:0000H - 0000:0400H)
- and attempting to determine which program or system area
- the interrupt is 'hooked' to.
-
- In some cases, such as when executing in a multi-tasking
- environment, the name of the program or device driver
- which is handling the interrupt may not be determinable.
-
- In this event, the name will be displayed as 'CONFIG' or
- '<driver>.SYS'. When either of these names is displayed,
- it means that the interrupt vector is hooked to a device
- driver which was loaded in CONFIG.SYS.
- <h_ Interrupts EXIT
- HELP: No Help Available
- <h_ DOS EXIT
- HELP: No Help Available
- <h_ MEMORY
- HELP: MEMORY SUBMENU
-
- Selecting this submenu displays how the memory in
- your system is used.
-
- Available information:
-
- - Amount of memory and allocation
- - Graphic map of the first physical megabyte
- - Expanded memory submenu information
- * General EMS information
- * Handles
- * Physical Pages
- * Timing Benchmark
- - Extended / XMS memory information
- <h_ MEMORY Information
- HELP: Memory Info
-
- This display provides a verbal description of
- how the first megabyte of memory in the system
- is allocated. This includes the DOS Interrupt
- Vector area, DOS itself, and the program memory
- area. Any addresses in the reserved memory region
- which are labeled "No Memory" are areas which can
- possibly be used for high memory.
-
- NOTE: If you find RAM in the reserved memory area
- it is probably the effect of having mapped
- memory in this area.
- <h_ MEMORY First Meg
- HELP: Megabyte 0 Graphic
-
- This map provides a graphical interpretation of the
- memory layout in MEGABYTE 0.
-
- The left most column indicates the hexadecimal start
- address of the segment, while the top row represents
- the address of each 4K page.
-
- Areas which have no memory are regions which can be
- set for high memory.
- <h_ MEMORY Expanded
- HELP: Expanded Memory
-
- Expanded memory requires special hardware in your
- system controlled by a software driver called an
- Expanded Memory Manager ( EMM ).
-
- If you have a 386, 386SX or 486 processor, then
- the EMS hardware support is already built-in,
- and all that is needed is a software driver (like
- ALL CHARGE 386). In a 286 system EMS can only be
- provided through additional hardware (like the ALL
- CHARGECARD).
-
- If there is no EMS driver installed in your system
- then no information will be available.
- <h_ Expanded Information
- HELP: Expanded Info
-
- EMM STATUS - the status returned by the EMM
-
- PAGE FRAME ADDRESS - the starting address of the 64K
- EMS Pageframe
-
- ALTERNATE REGISTERS - the number of alternate register
- sets supported by the hardware
-
- DMA REGISTER SETS - the number of DMA register sets
- supported by the hardware
-
- RAW PAGE SIZE - the size of the standard EMS page
-
- TOTAL EMS MEMORY - the total amount of memory under
- EMM control
- <h_ Expanded Handles
- HELP: EMS Handles
-
- A Handle is the basic element employed by an EMM to
- allocate expanded memory to a particular application.
- In this display, only the open handles are shown.
-
- HANDLE - a hexidecimal value returned by the EMM
-
- NAME - name assigned to the handle (if any)
-
- ATTRIBUTE - Volatile/Non-Volatile
-
- EMM PAGES - the number of EMS pages allocated to
- the handle ( each page is 16K )
-
- TOTAL SIZE - the amount of EMS memory allocated to
- the handle in kilobytes
- <h_ Expanded Phys Pages
- HELP: Mappable Physical Pages
-
- This graphic displays the mappable pages which
- currently exist in the system under the Expanded
- Memory Manager. Under EMS, this is referred to
- as the PHYSICAL MAPPABLE ADDRESS ARRAY.
-
- The display cross references the physical page
- numbers to their segment addresses.
-
- The hexadecimal numbers shown in the graphic
- represent mappable areas or additional EMS
- pageframes. Areas that are marked by the 'XX'
- are areas which are not mappable.
- <h_ Expanded Benchmark
- HELP: EMS Benchmark
-
- This benchmark tests the speed with which the
- expanded memory manager installed in the system
- is able to execute some key EMS functions. You
- can compare these results to other expanded memory
- implementations.
-
- The lower the execution time for each function the
- faster the EMS memory is.
- <h_ Expanded EXIT
- HELP: No Help Available
- <h_ MEMORY Extended
- HELP: Extended Memory Info
-
- This display gives you a general overview of your
- Extended Memory usage. The way in which memory is
- allocated depends on the method used by the program.
-
- START - start address (in K)
- END - end address (in K)
- TOTAL - amount of memory installed
- USED FROM TOP - memory allocated from the top
- USED FROM BOTTOM - memory allocated from 1024K
-
- Extended memory is controlled and managed by a
- special driver implementing the Microsoft XMS
- (eXtended Memory Specification) 2.0 or higher.
- <h_ MEMORY EXIT
- HELP: No Help Available
- <h_ NETWORKS
- HELP: NETWORK SUBMENU
-
- Selecting this submenu will provide you with helpful
- information when loading networks in high memory.
- Information is provided for various software packages
- and hardware adapters.
-
- Available information:
-
- - General information about networks
- - Network hardware adapters
- - Network software versions
- <h_ NETWORKS Information
- HELP: Networks Information
-
- This display will:
-
- - provide some helpful hints on optimizing
- high memory usage in networking environments.
-
- - provide the necessary information required
- to configure specific network adapters and
- network software.
-
- - give suggestions on how to configure ALLEMM4,
- to optimize the use of high memory.
- <h_ NETWORKS Hardware
- HELP: Networks - Hardware
-
- This submenu provides configuration information
- about various types of network hardware adapters.
-
- Available Information:
-
- - Arcnet boards
- - Proteon boards
- - Token Ring boards
- - Networks - Software
- - Other adapters
- * 3270 emulation
- * 8514/A video adapter
- * ESDI drive adapters
- * PC Network adapter II/A
- * etc
- <h_ Hardware Arcnet
- HELP: No Help Available
- <h_ Hardware Proteon
- HELP: No Help Available
- <h_ Hardware IBM Tkn Rng
- HELP: No Help Available
- <h_ Hardware Others
- HELP: No Help Available
- <h_ Hardware EXIT
- HELP: No Help Available
- <h_ NETWORKS Software
- HELP: Network - Software
-
- This submenu provides high memory configuration
- information for some of the more popular networks.
-
- Available Information:
-
- - Banyan Vines
- - CBIS OS
- - 3Com's 3+Open
- - Decnet PCSA
- - Novell
- - IBM PC LAN
- - TOPS
- - ReadyNet
- - 10Net
- - DLink
- <h_ Software Banyan
- HELP: No Help Available
- <h_ Software Cbis Os
- HELP: No Help Available
- <h_ Software 3Com
- HELP: No Help Available
- <h_ Software PCSA Decnet
- HELP: No Help Available
- <h_ Software Novell
- HELP: No Help Available
- <h_ Software IBM PC Lan
- HELP: No Help Available
- <h_ Software Tops
- HELP: No Help Available
- <h_ Software ReadyNet
- HELP: No Help Available
- <h_ Software 10 NET
- HELP: No Help Available
- <h_ Software Dlink
- HELP: No Help Available
- <h_ Software EXIT
- HELP: No Help Available
- <h_ NETWORKS EXIT
- HELP: No Help Available
- <h_ ALLEMM4
- HELP: ALLEMM4 SUBMENU
-
- Selecting this submenu will allow you to select displays
- showing the utilization of system memory under the
- control of the ALLEMM4 EXPANDED MEMORY MANAGER.
-
- Available information:
-
- - Information about the ALLEMM4 EXPANDED MEMORY
- MANAGER
- - Graphic map of MEGABYTE 0 usage under ALLEMM4
- - Graphic map of all conventional and extended
- Physical memory usage in your system
- - Graphic comparsion of Logical and Physical
- memory configuration within MEGABYTE 0
- - Alternate register set used by ALLEMM4 to map
- Logical memory into Physical memory
- - Graphic map of accessed pages
- <h_ ALLEMM4 Information
- HELP: ALLEMM4 Information
-
- The information in this display is specific to the
- ALLEMM4 (ALL EXPANDED MEMORY MANAGER) driver. ALLEMM4
- implements the Lotus/Intel/Microsoft Expanded Memory
- Specification 4.0 (LIM EMS 4.0).
-
- SYSTEM REGISTER SET - the register set number
- used by driver itself
-
- ALTERNATE REGISTER SET - the number of register
- sets still available
-
- CURRENT ACTIVE MAP - the register set number
- of the current map
- <h_ ALLEMM4 Examem
- HELP: Examine Logical Memory Usage
-
- The 'T's represent high memory mapped in by ALLEMM4 using
- RAM option.
-
- The mappable areas of memory are marked with 'M's and
- represent areas which may be used by LIM EMS 4.0
- applications. Mappable areas may be also used as high
- memory by TSRs.
-
- The 'P's in a display represent the 64K EMS Pageframe. If
- you specified FR=NONE with ALLEMM4, then no 'P's appear.
- Instead the area is marked with 'M's ot 'T's.
-
- Areas marked with dots ('.') represent address space where
- no memory was detected and where high memory may be mapped
- by ALLEMM4.
- <h_ ALLEMM4 XexaMem
- HELP: Examine Physical Memory Usage
-
- This display shows how each 4K of physical memory has
- been used.
-
- As memory is altered through mapping, any logical area
- with 'D' 'M' or 'P' (under EXAMEM) can be mapped into
- any page with an 'f' in Physical memory.
-
- <h_ ALLEMM4 Ex / Xex
- HELP: Examem/Xexamem
-
- The leftmost column gives the hexadecimal start address
- of the segment. The top row represents the address of a
- given 4K page.
-
- As you press the PgDn and PgUp keys you will notice
- certain characters appearing and disappearing. This
- represents the difference between the Logical and
- Physical memory layout in Megabyte 0.
-
- In other words, you are able to compare how Logical
- memory is mapped into Physical memory by ALLEMM4
- within MEGABYTE 0.
- <h_ ALLEMM4 Reg. Sets
- HELP: ALLEMM4 Register Sets
-
- This screen dumps the contents of the specified
- mapping register.
-
- The display is divided into two parts - the first
- represents register values for pages 0 to 7 while
- the second shows pages 8 through F.
-
- The first two digits of each value represent
- a particular megabyte of memory. The third digit
- specifies the segment and the final digit shows the
- page.
-
- For example, the value '021F' means that the 4K
- mapped into the logical address originates from
- physical memory in the 2nd megabyte at 1F000h.
- <h_ ALLEMM4 Access Map
- HELP: Accessed Pages Map
-
- This graphic represents the current status of each 4K
- page within MEGABYTE 0. The status indicates whether
- the given page is clean, read from or written to.
-
- The leftmost column gives the hexadecimal start
- address of the segment. The top row represents
- the start address of a 4KB page.
-
- The page status:
- A - page was read
-
- W - page was written
-
- U - page is clean
- <h_ ALLEMM4 EXIT
- HELP: No Help Available
- <h_ PRINT
- HELP: No Help Available
- <h_ PRINT Tech Info
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- <h_ PRINT All Data
- HELP: No Help Available
- <h_ PRINT EXIT
- HELP: No Help Available
- <h_ EXIT
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