Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 04:57:55 +0600 (LKT)
From: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT lintux DOT cx>
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Subject: Re: MS DOS 6.22 UPGRADE
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On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, The awesome and feared Prashant TR commented thusly,

> > > I simply want to state that:
> > > I APPLAUD ANYONE STILL USING msDOS 6.22 !!
> > > 
> > Thank you... :)
> > You're completely right about it. Just think about the MS-DOS 7 which
> > insists on loading things like HIMEM, DBLBUFF, SETVER etc.
> 
> No, you're mistaken. MS-DOS 7 *does not* force you to load any of
> these drivers. It happens only if you go to Windows.

This is certainly wrong, it certainly loads all that crap by default even
if you select "command line" as the boot up option..for example it loads
dblbuffer.sys despite me having a brand new IDE HDD drive..!?

You can change that by adding DOS=NOAUTO to the CONFIG.SYS  file.

Enjoy!
Grendel

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