Mail Archives: opendos/2001/01/17/03:26:34
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From: "Da Silva, Joe" <Joe DOT DaSilva AT emailmetering DOT com>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 4:45 PM
Subject: RE: DOSBOOK, DRDOS.INI (was DR-DOS 7.03 Not Recognizing All
Memory)
> Well, regarding DOSBOOK, I must say that one of it's problems is
> that it is quite difficult to track down "low level" stuff with it,
such as
> CONFIG.SYS commands, batch language stuff, INI files, etc. It
> really assumes that you will use SETUP to do everything and can
> be rather frustrating!
I have often seen messages like this and do not understand why people
have such a hard time with it.
I use the INDEX feature most of the time to find what I need. For
example, if I need to find what commands I can use in the CONFIG.SYS
file, I can open the DOSBOOK and just start typing in the letters to
whatever I am insterested in looking at. I can type in config.sys and it
will take me directly to that part of the DOSBOOK index. Then you will
see under the config.sys a subindex called commands and every command
that can be used in the config.sys file is listed. You can then scroll
down the list of commands until you find the one you want. For example,
you want to find out what stacks are, you would scroll down to stacks,
then press <enter> then that will take you directly to stacks. Under
stacks it even recommends settings for various types of systems and
gives examples and tells you what the ranges are and what each entry in
the command line is for.
As far as I am concerned it is very easy to use, but then again I have
been using DRDOS for many years and maybe I am just so used to it that
it becomes second nature for me to look up something.
Pat
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