Mail Archives: opendos/2000/11/24/19:02:03
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arkady V.Belousov" <ark AT belous DOT munic DOT msk DOT su>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 3:44 AM
Subject: Re: Optimizing CONFIG.SYS...
> 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>:
> 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/
I'll give it a try. I have tried numerous mouse drivers and have not found a
good one yet.
> 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.
Yes, I know. they do not use any memory, that is why they can be used at
anytime.
> PM> SET TEMP=C:\TEMP
> PM> SET TMP=C:\TMP
>
> Why you use different directory for %TMP%?
I have always had both |TEMP and \TMP directories on all drives and
partitions long before this variable was included in the AUTOEXEC. mainly,
stupid WINDOWS will erase everything that exists in the TEMP directory. I
keep files there from time to time, so I now use TMP for those files. I have
had this habbit for many years and long before WINDOZE crap came around.
> 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).
I do use RAMDISKs from time to time. Also I do have Norton's DESKTOP which
does things a little differently and it put that into the AUTOEXEC, so I
just leave it there.
> PM> BREAK=OFF
>
> I recommend BREAK=ON - this gives slightly more control on apps
running
> for you.
It slows down the computer, so I leave it off.
> 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.
QEMM puts in in anyway.
> 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>
> 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.
I get 622K so with WINDOZE I would probably get 608K, but who knows. I may
find a way to increase that.
> PM> B02A:0000 DRMOUSE 1B60h, 7,008 Program
>
> ______________O\_/_________________________________\_/O______________
> B5E7 - B6B6 3.3K CTMOUSE
> _____________________________________________________________________
> O/~\ /~\O
I'll give that a try. Have you used it loaded prior to running TASK MANAGER
and using a communications program such as Terminate? How does it work with
EGA, VGA and SVGA? I have another mouse driver that I can use for the higher
res graphics, but it loads a secondary TSR and is a bit flaky when
installing some of the mouse stuff high. It was made specifically for my
mouse. (El cheapo.)
Pat
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