Date:	Fri, 4 Jul 1997 13:05:47 +0200 (MET DST)
From:	Mark Habersack <grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To:	grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To:	Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
cc:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: nwcdex
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On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Matthias Paul wrote:

> I'm currently thinking about adding a new pre-scanning of CONFIG.SYS
> to cope with some of MS-DOS' features.  This would relax the problem
> with SWITCHES=.  For backward compatibility, to disable the 
> pre-scanning to become effective, a new SWITCHES=/P could be 
> introduced... ;-)
I have just recently fixed the bug in the IBMBIOS sources which caused COD
to fail to load from hard drive other than C:
If you look at the init.asm file, search the "floppy_boot:" string - right
before that label there's an instruction:

mov	al, 2

which is what causes COD to boot from C: only. It's enough to replace this
sequence with two 'nop's:

nop
nop

then COD will boot from whichever physical drive.
Note: I HAVEN'T TESTED IT - my 2nd drive is Linux and I have no space left to
install DOS on it!

> PS: For those waiting for my IBMBIO.COM update:  It will come as 
>     soon as I have finished tiding up the sources.  However, I'm
>     permanently inventing new features, so this may take some more
>     time...  I'm thinking about making a *binary* alpha version 
>     available via my web-pages within the next days, reflecting the 
>     current status of the file.  Hope to receive all your comments 
>     and bug-reports...
You can count on me. I have also several ideas about the startup code (mainly
adding more flexible menu support, several screen related commands to set the
screen resolution other than 80x25 - similar to the SVGATextMode utility on
Linux)

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