Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/05/21:01:30
On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, Mark Habersack wrote:
> > When OpenDOS boots, it will first look for the file DCONFIG.SYS and if that
> > doesn't exist it will go on and look for CONFIG.SYS. The D stood for DRDOS
> > CONFIG file by the way (The DRDOS team were really good at coming up with
> > names ;-)). There is a CCONFIG.SYS for Concurrent DOS too.
> Ah! Didn't know that - that's the solution I was looking for! Thanks, so far
> I used the autocon package (from simtel in msdos/bootutl)
THANK GOD FOR THAT ONE!!!! I'll have to try it out ASAP!!
> > Win95, MS-DOS etc. will ignore this so you can put specific info for OpenDOS
> > in here. The most useful two commands being SHELL= and SET PATH=C:\ OPENDOS.
> > Here is my DCONFIG.SYS file on my dual boot Win95/OpenDOS Dell.
> Also you can freely use the SELECT statement in that file - neat! But
> there's a small problem with installers modifying the startup files - they
> will do their job only on the 'standard' ones.
Before I install ANY new software, I do a backup of ALL of my
config files (AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS, ETC\*, WIN\*.INI, etc...)
and then afterwards I use FC or some other program to compare the
old files with the new ones, then I can undo the damage caused by
installers and put things in the right place.
> > There is no DAUTOEXEC.BAT if that's what your thinking, that would be two
> > easy? To determine if OpenDOS is running post CONFIG processing, the
> > environment variable OS is set to OPENDOS and VER is set to 7. The PATH set
> > in DCONFIG is carried over so set path to include previous definition i.e.
> > PATH=%PATH%;c:\newpath;
> And you can share the autoexec.bat between M$-DOG and OpenDOS by simply
> setting CONFIG in DCONFIG.SYS to the current configuration name, just as
> M$-DOG does in behind the scenes. Or even do 'goto %OS%' - if there's no OS
> set, it will do nothing and process the M$-DOG part, if OS is set - you move
> to the OD part. Neat(2)!
Why share AUTOEXEC.BAT's when you can specify the batch file to
run as a command line parameter to OpenDOS's COMMAND.COM? 4DOS
also allows you to specify the PATH\FILENAME for an alternate
batch file to run as well. This way you can have separate
AUTOEXEC.BAT's AND CONFIG.SYS's.
> > By the way, in the above configuration, with full NetWare client loaded and
> > CD-ROM driver/redirector I get a full 640K TPA. With the network unloaded I
> > get 720K.
> So far, I the best result I got was 622K... ;-(
I can't get the *alleged* 640k either. *YET*. How does one load
stuff *ABOVE* the 1M point anyway?
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