Mail Archives: opendos/2000/12/30/16:53:36
Sorry I am so late in responding to this.
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Florian Xaver wrote:
> [I originally wrote, concerning DR-DOS 7.03:]
> > [...] My machine has 128MB RAM installed, and 'doozy recognizes all of
> >it. However, when I boot DR-DOS, the MEM command only reports on 64MB.
> >Is this a limitation of DR-DOS?
>
> Yes, but you can fix it.
>
> Write this before DEVICE=c:\drdos\emm386.exe [...] :
>
> DEVICE=c:\windows\himem.sys
>
> (don't use himem from Dr-DOS, use this one from Win98).
>
> Then you can use all memory!
I am still learning DR-DOS in my spare time and admit that I have
not yet been able to get all the way through the DOSBOOK. However, I
did try what Florian suggested. When I boot, DR-DOS complains about
having both HIMEM.SYS and EMM386, but unfortunately, the message goes
off the top of the screen. The MEM command does report 128MB. But
apparently not everything is happy with it. I installed my old copy of
Mansfield's KEDIT, and it would only recognize 640KB. When I took out
HIMEM.SYS (from Windows 98), KEDIT would use 16MB.
On another matter, in my C:\DRDOS there is a file DRDOS.INI. I
cannot find it listed in the DOSBOOK index as to what it is for and
what it does. I did change the current color setting and that changed
the color scheme in the DOSBOOK. But unless there is someting I am
missing, I do not know what the other settings in DRDOS.INI are good
for.
Color thing that is significant for me. Back under MS-DOS 5, I
used NDOS.COM from the Norton Utilities as my shell. NDOS allowed me
to set the forground and background colors as well as the overscan
border on a VGA monitor (i.e., for command level itself, not DOSBOOK).
I liked this feature very much, as stark white on black is a little
difficult for me. But again, I haven't found any way to set colors in
DR-DOS.
Thanks.
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