Mail Archives: opendos/1997/03/14/09:07:22
Hi!
> 8] DPMS version of device drivers (mouse, Personal Netware, etc.)
Yup.
Here's a trick I've already told in the official Caldera OpenDOS
mailing list (for more details, please read their mailing list
archive):
Under most circumstances, you can use Helix CLOAKING instead of
DPMS, since CLOAKING gives you an undocumented 'Cloaked DPMS-Server':
+ CLOAKING requires only additional 100 Bytes for the Cloaked DPMS-
Server (if not giving undocumented /NODPMS option). CLOAKING can
be loaded high, while DPMS cannot, which gives you 1KB more
conventional memory.
+ All DPMS-aware TSRs run fine with CLOAKING, but also all CLOAKING-
aware TSRs run fine with it.
+ The Logitech Mousedriver 6.60+ is a CLOAKING-client, and with
CLOAKING loaded, it will require 1KB (instead of 27KB), that can be
loaded high.
- Most often, the multitasking TASKMGR crashes (on my system),
if CLOAKING is loaded, no matter if providing DPMS-services or not.
- Starting a PNW SERVER in a Windows 3.1 DOS-Box, the server becomes
unstable with CLOAKING providing the DPMS-server. Maybe this is
due to the fact, that DPMS provides a DPMS VxD, which CLOAKING does
not.
Reports welcome...
Does anybody know of a CLOAKING version newer than 2.01 of 1994?
Bye,
Matthias
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