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Path: bloom-beacon.mit.edu!hookup!swrinde!emory!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!toads.pgh.pa.us!birdie-blue.cis.pitt.edu!pitt.edu!wcbst4
From: wcbst4+@pitt.edu (William C Beegle)
Newsgroups: comp.os.geos,comp.os.msdos.pcgeos,comp.answers,news.answers
Subject: PC/GEOS FAQ List part 0/2 -- Changes since last revision
Summary: PC/GEOS is a GUI (Graphical User Interface) developed by
Geoworks. It runs on top of MS or DR DOS and provides
a multitasking, multithreaded environment for any DOS
machine with at least 640k of RAM and a hard disk.
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Date: 10 Mar 94 22:16:33 GMT
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Archive-name: pcgeos-faq/part0
Last-modified: modified March 7, 1994
FAQ 1:
Made Contents Searchable:
[CONTENTS] Table of Contents:
Search for: To find out about:
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[GENERAL] What is GEOS?
[CONTACT] How do I contact them?
[3RDPARTY] What else is available?
[GROUPS] User and Support Groups
[DOSTECH] "How to" information for using GEOS with DOS
[GEOSTECH] "How to" information within the GEOS environment
[NEW] New Questions
[NEW]
Q: What about the Task Switcher/Multitasker in Novell's NW-DOS 7?
A: The multitasker and GEOS don't work together AT ALL. You can get the
task switcher to work with GEOS by making sure that it uses <Ctrl><Esc> as
it's key combination. Select the DR-DOS TaskMax switcher in preferences,
and it should work.
[NEW]
Q: I switched from MS-DOS/PC-DOS to DR-DOS and GEOS won't load, even
after i run SETUP. What am I doing wrong?
A: Make sure that you have FILES=120 or MORE. DR-DOS uses files
differently and needs more available. This DOES NOT apply to NW-DOS 7.
NW-DOS is okay with 30.
[NEW]
Q: I'm running Ensemble with Stacker installed. Drive C is my stacker
volume. For some reason GeoManager insists on looking at drive E for the
/geoworks/world directory, even though when I exit geoworks, I'm on drive
C. Any ideas?
A: Check the volume labels for drives C, D, and E. If they're identical,
then use GeoManager to edit the volume labels so that each drive has its
own distinct label. On some computers, you may have to exit to DOS to
change the drive label (use the LABEL command).
[NEW]
Q: I'm having problems with MS-DOS 6 or 6.2, or PC-DOS 6.1 and GEOS 2.0.
Why won't it work?
A: First, make sure that FILES=30 or more, and BUFFERS=30 or more. If
this doesn't help, try using SETVER.
[NEW]
Q: I keep getting SHARE or File Lock errors when I run Geos. What's
going on?
A: Geos needs a lot of files open at once. If you're using SHARE, try
adding the switch /f:4096 or /f:2048.
[NEW]
Q: In the GEOS area of Preferences, what is Wait/Post?
A: (From the America Online GeoInfo Database) Wait/post is a small
optimization that comes into play when you're trying to make your system
do a couple things at a time, one of which is using the disk a lot. Simply
put, the BIOS will notify GEOS that it is waiting for something to happen
(e.g. the disk to read a particular sector), allowing GEOS to switch to
something else, rather than waiting in BIOS until the thread's time has
expired and the system goes to look for something more important to do.
When the hardware notifies BIOS the thing for which it was waiting has
come to pass, the BIOS posts this notification to GEOS, which then makes
the waiting thread run again.
This used to be the default behavior in Ensemble 1.2, but it caused
problems on enough machines (forcing people to pass the /nowaitpost switch
to the kernel whenever they ran it), that we decided to change it to be
optional in 2.0, enabled in Preferences.
It is automatically disabled for the session following a crash, to allow
you to turn it off again in Preferences, should it cause your system to crash.
Article#0328
Updated 06/26/93
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FAQ 2:
Made contents searchable, updated questions using Geoworks Support Doc
1001 - Developer Info.
[DEVCONTENTS] Contents for GEOS Developers FAQ
Search for: To find out about:
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[DEVINDEX] This index (For the Geos Developers' FAQ)
[DEVQ] Developer Questions
[SDK] What's available in the SDK
[DEVREQ] Developer Hardware & Software Requirements
[DEVSUPPORT] Developer Training and Support
[END] End of FAQ