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Telegard and Desqview
by Scott Adams
So you want to run Telegard under Desqview? Well its very easy to
setup and it is stable once you tweak things. I have run Desqview/tg
for over 5 years now without major problems. Before you attempt it
however I suggest you gather up as many desqview technical manueals
(on many web sites for DV) with the extension of .TEC. I spent time
reading over 180 of these and finding many tips and tricks to tweak
my version. It is only to your advtange. This article assumes the
version of desqview is 2.63 and Dos 6.22 with 24 megs of ram (on my
machine). This article also assumes using QEMM as the memory manager.
The first thing you should do is setup Desqview as much as possible
with its optimization tools. You should run QEMM's tools like optimize
to complete your full setup before you interface it with Telegard.
Here is how my config.sys looks:
device=c:\qemm\dosdata.sys
DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS RAM ST:M XST=F000 NOWINDOWS3 R:2
device=c:\qemm\dos-up.sys @c:\qemm\dos-up.dat
DEVICE=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:1 /SIZE=11248 C:\QEMM\QDPMI.SYS
SWAPFILE=DPMI.SWP SWAPSIZE=1024 (this and above is one line)
BUFFERS=40,0
FILES=60
DOS=HIGH,UMB
LASTDRIVE=E
FCBS=16,0
STACKS=9,512
DEVICE=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:2 /SIZE=17440 C:\X00.SYS
FIFO=15 E 1 B,0,38400 DV T=1024 R=1024 (one line here also)
device=c:\qemm\loadhi.sys /r:2 /size=2112 C:\ansi.sys
shell=c:\qemm\loadhi.com /R:2 c:\command.com c:\dos /E:1024 /p
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Some people have trouble with the ST: parameter so experiement
with this. If you can get ST:F it might be better performance.
You will notice I am using X00.sys as the fossil driver. You will
have to replace your line with it if you use something differently.
I load ansi.sys but DV comes with DVansi.com so use either which
ever gives you a better performance and suits your needs.
This is some parts of my autoexec.bat which is applicable to this
article:
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[snip]
C:\QEMM\LOADHI /R:2 /LO C:\DOS\SMARTDRV.EXE /U /X 2048
[snip]
C:\QEMM\LOADHI /R:2 C:\DOS\SHARE.EXE
c:\qemm\loadhi /r:1 C:\dv\dvansi.com
call dv.bat
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I load share for my multi-node status of Telegard. I also load
Dvansi so that some windows could use it if needed. I then just
run DV itself via DV.bat.
The DV.Batch file simply changes to the DV directory and runs
DV like:
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cd c:\dv
DV %1 %2 %3 %4 %5
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The %1-%5 are parameters if you wish to run DV in various other
modes of operation but it runs fine by itself without parameters.
I use Frontdoor (since I get networks) as my front-end mailer.
Frontdoor (FD) will wait for a caller and if there exists one will
send it to the bbs. I therefore have added a program item to the
DV menu called Frontdoor thas has the following information for it:
Program Name: Frontdoor
Keys to open with: FD
Memory size (in K) : 488 * !
Program: c:\fd\loadfd.bat (the batch file to load FD)
Parameters: None
Directory : c:\fd
Options:
Writes Text directory to screen: Y !
Display graphics information : N !
Virtualize text graphics : Y !
Use Serial port : 1 *
Requires floppy diskette : Y
Advanced options
System memory : 0 !
Max program memory : 600 * !
Script Buffer : 1000
Max EMS/XMS/DMPI : 4000 *!
Text pages: 1 Graphics page: 0 Initial text mode: blank
Windows position: you define
Shared programs: None
Close on exit: N Uses its own colors: Y
Allow close window command: N Runs in background: Y
Uses Math coprocessor: Y* Keyboard conflict: 0
Share cpu when foreground: Y Share EGA in foreground: Y
Can be swapped out: N Protection level: 0
Note: * these values will depend on your system
! These values are vital and will affect performance
When a user calls the batch file will then take over to run
Telegard and process mail as normal. Since I have node 2 for my
personal use DV allows me to login while a user is on node 1. I
can then do things while the user is reading mail or other things.
The screens setup on this is as follows:
Program Name: Local Node (my personal node)
Keys to open with: MN
Memory size (in K) : 512 * !
Program: c:\yourtgdir\local.bat (batch file to run your node)
Parameters: None
Directory : c:\yourtgdir
Options:
Writes Text directory to screen: Y !
Display graphics information : N !
Virtualize text graphics : Y !
Use Serial port : N *
Requires floppy diskette : Y
Advanced options
System memory : 0 !
Max program memory : 600 * !
Script Buffer : 0
Max EMS/XMS/DMPI : 4000 *!
Text pages: 1 Graphics page: 0 Initial text mode: blank
Windows position: you define
Shared programs: None
Close on exit: N Uses its own colors: Y
Allow close window command: N Runs in background: Y
Uses Math coprocessor: Y* Keyboard conflict: 0
Share cpu when foreground: Y Share EGA in foreground: Y
Can be swapped out: N Protection level: 0
Note: * these values will depend on your system
! These values are vital and will affect performance
The only real difference is in the serial port item and the
program name and info.
I am going to include with this article dvtech.zip which is
a few of the more important and intereting tech files I kept from
the 180 or so. You might want to read them as well.
The main enemy of TG and DV is the exception error. This is
caused from many reasons but the main reason is memory conflicts.
I use some utilities called phonev4 and autoboot which will reboot
the system for me if I ever have those problems. I rarely get those
problems however today unless its doing some ftp operation and time
out occurs and my ftp client doesn't exit. But then my system will
reset itself within 5 minutes using autoboot. These type of situations
are impossible to completely get rid of but youc an improve your chances
of not getting exception errors (especially exception 6 and 13).
Tweaking is the best way and can cure 80% of the problems that might
occur on your system. I have some suggestions for those using TG
and DV.
1) Run Desqview only when you want to be online to multi-task.
My bbs is on a dedicated machine so if I want to get on I just load
DV and let users on. However if its your main computer you might
have to leave it on 24/7. But leaving it on all the time will increase
your chances of problems.
2) Some old online games like Immortal Combat can cause exceptions
due to old or bad code that conflict with memory. I thus suggest that
you run midnight maintenance outside of DV to prevent such problems.
As of this article there are 2 systems that are on the Telegard
help list which I maintain and post in FidoNet Tg_support. These
two systems will specifically help you with DV related things. Here
are their entries (yes notice one is myself).
Sysop Name Nodes User Platform Ram (if given) Notes
Scott Adams 2 1 Desqview 24 megs TG Beta Site
Robert Dick 3 2 Desqview 8 megs
Sysop Name BBS Name Location Phone FidoNet
Scott Adams Fringe BBS - EWOG II Jacksonville, FL 904-733-1721 1:112/91
Robert Dick F.U.B.A.R. Hamilton, ON 905-560-3135 1:244/234
You can call their bbs or send them Netmail to ask for further
help you might have.
Good luck with Desqview!
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To contact me for feedback on the article or questions/comments:
BBS: 904-733-1721 Fringe BBS-EWOG II (guest account avaliable)
Email: longshot@darktech.org ICQ #: 24436933
website: http://users.cybermax.net/~longshot
Netmail: FidoNet 1:112/91 Fido TG Echo: Tg_support
I welcome any comments or questions ohe articles. If enough
feedback is given I can do article follow-ups. I suggest you also
send feedback to the the other article authors of this newsletter
for without feedback the desire to continue is difficult.
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