Mail Archives: opendos/2003/11/29/11:17:58
On 29 Nov 2003 at 14:11, DONALD PEDDER wrote:
> > Could you tell us more about 'this computer' (CPU, mainboard, BIOS,
> > memory, add-on cards, etc.)?
>
> Uh, I can try. :-) The CPU is a Celeron 466MHz, my system-board is
> "PC100 slot 1/socket 370 M741lmrt", AMIBIOS, memory is 64Mb,
> sound-cards,etc. are built-in to the system-board.
>
>
> > What is the GREEN command in your AUTOEXEC?
>
> It's just a little pascal program that sets my text-colour to green.
> Unfortunately, as soon as I use an app (like the editor) it reverts to
> white again. I've still not yet found out how to permanently set it to
> green.
Only way I've found of doing that sort of thing is
to install 4dos to replace COMMAND.COM.
It has a lot of other advantages, as well, such as
using a lot less conventional RAM.
check it out at http://www.jpsoft.com
> Memory Type Total Bytes ( Kbytes ) Available For Programs
> Conventional 654,336 ( 639K ) 304,064 ( 297K )
> Upper 147,456 ( 144K ) 91,680 ( 90K )
> High 65,520 ( 64K ) 3,383 ( 3K )
> Extended 57,606,144 ( 56,256K ) 0 ( 0K )
> Extended via XMS -------- 48,076,800 ( 46,950K )
> Largest executable program: 304,048 ( 297K )
> Total Free DOS memory: 395,744 ( 386K )
>
>
> This looks very handy. :-) This says I have 46Mb available via XMS -
> how do I make the programs use that?
You don't. Unless they are written to use it, they
*can't*. If they are written to use it, then they
will be option settings of command line switchjes to
tell them to use it.
> Also, for something that terminates without
> staying resident, how would I find out how much
> memory it is using?
With difficulty.
> > Please tell us more about your system configuration.
>
> Like? I'm not really into the technical side, so if you want to find
> something out you need to tell me what commands to run or where I'm
> looking. e.g. I had never used the mem command until just now.
Well, that's one of the problems. Working with DOS
at this level is *inherently* "technical".
--
Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at krypton dot rain dot com
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