Message-Id:	<s47ed72e.019@calderauk.com>
Date:	Fri, 28 Nov 1997 14:37:19 +0000
From:	Matthias Paul <MPaul AT calderauk DOT com>
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com, opendos-support AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Fwd: re(2): Multiple Configurations
Mime-Version:	1.0

Hi Philip, hi all.

>I [...] just want to make multiple configurations for my
>games, windows, programming sessions, etc......
Isn t this documented in the DOSBOOK? Please have a look 
at SWITCH=, GOSUB=, and RETURN=. For more advanced 
options please have a look at the examples in MPDOSTIP.ZIP 
(in the NWDOSTIP.TXT file).

>What is this IBMBIO I've been reading about?
For all those who are new to this list, please have a look at my 
web-pages at 

http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/opendeng.html

Though not yet updated for COD 7.02 B2, you should be able to find
a lot of valueable info concerning OpenDOS and DOS in general there,
including many links to other (more fancy) OpenDOS and related pages,
info providers, and neat DOS utilities pages. 
From my pages you can also download several AddOn utilities for
OpenDOS, for example tools to analyze & modify Country and Codepage
data, a .CPI  file for NEC Pinwriters, INSTCDEX to load(high) NWCDEX in 
CONFIG.SYS, SETENV to optimize the pre-environment usage (to save valueable memory), some disk tooks. Also, at the moment you can still find  my  IBMBIO.COM ALPHA3 archive there (which is now outdated since the 
IBMBIO.COM file of COD 7.02 BETA2+ is actually a merge of the ALPHA4 and Caldera s COD 7.02B1+ BIOS, but the archive still contains alot of useful info concerning the new features and OpenDOS  boot process, not yet included in the official docs). 
Those of you, who do understand German, should also have a look 
at MPDOSTIP.ZIP, containing my many hundered pages sized tips & 
tricks collection for OpenDOS, Novell DOS, and DR DOS, describing 
literally hundreds of undocumented features of OpenDOS, how to get
the most out of it, and how it live with some of the bugs not fixed yet.

>Also, is there going to be any support for NTFS?  I have a friend who
>wanted to install COD7.02 B2 and sayd it choked on his NT system.
There should be some DOS drivers out in the public, supporting read
access to NTFS partitions (by the way, the same applies to HPFS). 
I also heard of drivers for write access, but I must admit I never 
tested them. Maybe someone else has useful tips?
In the early days of these OpenDOS mailing lists there was a lot of
discussion concerning writing DPMS-aware drivers for ext2fs, HPFS,
and NTFS, but unfortunately since some time, there is silence...

Matthias


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Matthias Paul
eMail: <Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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