To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
X-Comment-To:	"Patrick Moran" <pmoran22 AT yahoo DOT com>
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From:	"Arkady V.Belousov" <ark AT belous DOT munic DOT msk DOT su>
Date:	Fri, 24 Nov 2000 13:44:56 +0300 (MSK)
Organization:	Locus
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Subject:	Re: Optimizing CONFIG.SYS...
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X-Comment-To: Patrick Moran

Hi!

23-ξΟΡ-2000 14:12 pmoran22 AT yahoo DOT com (Patrick Moran) wrote to
<opendos AT delorie DOT com>:

PM> C:\DRDOS\DRMOUSE
PM> ^
PM> I normally do not load this in the AUTOEXEC. It will interfere with using
PM> communications with TASK MANAGER. I load the mouse driver within a TASK
PM> window when it is needed. The only reason I loaded it now is for
PM> demonstartion purposes.

     DRMOUSE is an old stealed CTMOUSE. I recommend to use latest CuteMouse
which is contain many bugfixes and uses only 3.3K instead of 7K of DRMOUSE.
Look at http:/www.vein.hu/~nagyd/

PM> PROMPT [DRDOS] $P$G
PM> ^
PM> These can be loaded anytime. I did not notice any difference if I loaded
PM> them first.

     PROMPT is not a program, this is substitute for SET PROMPT statement,
also as PATH is a substitute for SET PATH statement.

PM> SET TEMP=C:\TEMP
PM> SET TMP=C:\TMP

     Why you use different directory for %TMP%?

PM> SET NU=C:\NORT

     This variable required _only_ if you keep *.INI files separate from
*.EXE files (for example, if you copy *.EXE to RAMDISK).

PM> BREAK=OFF

     I recommend BREAK=ON - this gives slightly more control on apps running
for you.

PM> FCBS=4,4
PM> ^
PM> I use the 4,4 because I experiment with QEMM. QEMM likes it. This
PM> gives me an additional 4 files, which I do not need, but some old
PM> programs still uses FCBS and if I play with CP/M I need it.

     I use FCBS=1 and have no problems with this.

PM>   37F:0000   COMMAND     1F0h,     496  Program                           
PM>   39E:0000   COMMAND     210h,     528  Environment                       
PM>   3BF:0000       MEM     1F0h,     496  Environment                       
PM>   3DE:0000       MEM   15C20h,  89,120  Program                           
PM>  19A0:0000  --------   859F0h, 547,312  FREE                              
PM>  9F3F:0000       DOS   10C10h,  68,624  System                            
PM> †€€€€€€€€€€€Š€€€€€€€€€€Š€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€Š€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€‡
PM>  B000:0000  --------    8000h,  32,768  ---------- Upper RAM ------------ 

     By Manifest on my machine with DOS 6.22 and QEMM I have:

______________O\_/_________________________________\_/O______________
0050 - 006F   0.5K  System Data
0070 - 0149   3.4K  DOS
014A - 08CC    30K  Program Area
08CD - 9FFE   604K  [Available]
9FFF - 9FFF   0.1K  Unused
===Conventional memory ends at 640K====
A000 - AFFF    64K  VGA Graphics
_____________________________________________________________________
              O/~\                                 /~\O

where Program area includes ~14K of Windows data.

PM>  B02A:0000  DRMOUSE     1B60h,   7,008  Program                           

______________O\_/_________________________________\_/O______________
B5E7 - B6B6   3.3K  CTMOUSE
_____________________________________________________________________
              O/~\                                 /~\O

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