Mail Archives: opendos/1997/01/31/12:25:00
(I was wanting to send this to opendos-support, but it bounced. Maybe this
explains why nobody's used it yet...)
I have two questions:
1. Does anyone have any info on how the TASKMGR.INI file works? I want
to do some tweaking. In particular, how do I get a TSR duplicated in
each task? (WCED, a command-line editor that provides filename
completion.) And what are the device drivers it seems to load?
2. According to Gene, the memory manager is really good and it's possible
to get over 620kB of free conventional memory. Hmmm. I have trouble
breaking 500kB. Does anyone have any advice?
On the whole, OpenDOS appears to be excellent. It'll even task-switch SWAT and
GEOS (hands up anybody who's heard of them!). All I need now is to patch it so
that instead of using CTRL and the number keys, it uses ALT and the function
keys to switch. :) It's a pity that EMM386.EXE is so broken, the multitasking
is great. At one point I was managing to copy a disc and do something else at
the same time. Ah, heaven...
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