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From:	"Matthias Paul" <Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
To:	<opendos AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: PCMCIA
Date:	Sun, 14 Oct 2001 14:36:30 +0200
Organization:	University of Technology, RWTH Aachen, Germany
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On 2001-10-13, Fergus Hayman wrote:

> Still toying with my 486 laptop. with a 350 meg drive. I can't find
> any pcmcia support in Dr-dos. I installed some card support drivers.
> Don't appear to work must be for MSdos only.

Hm, DR-DOS 7.xx does not ship with PCMCIA drivers, unfortunately, but
the DR PalmDOS PCMCIA Socket Services drivers also work with later
issues of DR DOS. They should be available from Lineo (for money),
although they havenīt been updated for some while now (PC Card etc.).
Itīs kind of sad irony that DR DOS does not come with them, as the
PalmDOS PCMCIA drivers have been partially developed by one of the
original inventors and founders of the pluggable card initiative,
which later became PCMCIA...

Anyway, 3rd party PCMCIA drivers should also work with DR DOS just
fine, but due to their huge and sometimes confusing resource utilization
it may be difficult to set them up - under MS-DOS/PC DOS as well
as under DR-DOS. If you donīt need the full stack, try so called
"card enablers", these reduced drivers often come with your cards
or the laptop and if you have a supported chipset they are much
easier to install and usually require much less memory. They do
not allow for hot re-plugging, though.

PC DOS 7/2000 also ships with PCMCIA drivers, they work fine under
DR DOS. The only things that is currently missing in DR DOS are the
implementation of the newer Power Management events at device driver
level (but they are also not supported under MS-DOS 6.22), but that
shouldnīt keep the drivers from running.

-

Yes, this list is still alive, although with the stalling offical
development of DR-DOS there isnīt that much to talk about at the
moment... :-( Everyone interested in active DOS development is invited
to also join the FreeDOS Developer Mailing List fd-dev AT topica DOT com
(see http://www.freedos.org). While still playing in a completely
different class, FreeDOS has made significant progress recently.
The current Beta is 7. And continued FreeDOS development will also
help DR-DOS development in the long run.

One last comment. Please donīt post HTML content into public lists
like this one. Many people (in particular DOS and Unix users) will not
be able to read your mail in HTML format and since HTML mails are
usually more than twice as large as normal plain ASCII text messages
without any added value, itīs just increasing online costs for you
and everyone listening, and for people who /can/ display HTML message
it is a serious security risk for virus contamination. Do yourself
a favour and visit the following sites to learn a little bit about
the background and how to disable this "feature" in your browser.
Thanks alot.

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1236/nomime.html
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Greetings,

 Matthias

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Matthias Paul, Ubierstrasse 28, D-50321 Bruehl, Germany
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