From: derek greene <topcoder AT netime DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Setting up RHIDE/ DJGPP
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 00:40:52 -0400
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To: Robert Hoehne <Robert DOT Hoehne AT Mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de>
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Robert Hoehne wrote:
> 
> Ron T Lewis wrote:
> 
> > I would like to know the best way to set DJ and RHIDE up in Win95.
> >
> I cannot say something about the best configuration, because I have not
> the time to test all possibilities, but I will describe my
> configuration.
> 
> > I have 32megs of RAM and have ALL of my programming stuff on a slave
> > drive D:\ and the OS system files etc on C:\,E:\,F:\ .
> >
> I have a 486DX2/66 and 20MB of RAM.
> 
> > The docs recommend a 4 meg RamDrive->TEMPDIR and a 4 meg cache but I'm
> > wondering how I set that up for the Dos Box or if it's even possible.
> > Also, do I set the cache to ONLY cache the D:\ drive???..
> 
> I have tested it with and without RamDrive and with/without smartdrive
> and
> I found, that the standard setting of Win 95 are good. That means, I'm
> not
> using a RamDrive and not external disk cache. The Win95 internal disk
> cache
> is tourned on (standard) and is in my opinion a good cache. There is
> also
> turned on the write cache as deafult, but currently I never had problems
> with it, even after a crash (and I have often such a beast)
> 
> > I'd like to maintain 95 in the background if I can but when I try and
> > configure the dos box it simply drops out of 95 and lands me in Dos.?
> >
> If you are bombed out to DOS if trying to configure the DOS-Box, there
> is
> probably something wrong with your Win95 installation.
> I have configured my DOS-box to use 32 MB DPMI-memory and all the other
> memory to Auto. The flag for protecting the system memory of faults from
> the DOS-box is turned on.
> 
> > Currently I'm running from a default DosBox with a 4 meg RAMDRIVE but it
> > seems the File IO is bogging it down an otherwise faultless performance.
> >
> I think this is a result of your only caching D:
> 
> I'm using Win95 only, because I can use there more than on DOS sessions,
> not
> for using Win95 as graphical OS. Thats why I cannot say about the other
> (mis)features of that OS.
> 
> And at least, remember the fact, that Win95 enables you to use the long
> filenames, so you should take care of setting the LFN environment
> variable
> to the correct value you want, when using DJGPP.
> 
> Robert
> --
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> * Robert Hoehne, Fakultaet fuer Mathematik, TU-Chemnitz-Zwickau *
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umm on my 486/dx4 100Mhz with 12 mb of ram i just installeed it normally
and set up a shortcut to use it under win95 and after i figured out how
to get it to run the prog it worked perfectly!