Message-Id: <199805191209.IAA07034@mail.taconic.net>
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To: <mwarchol AT flash DOT net>
From: Charles Hallenbeck <2ndsight AT taconic DOT net>
CC: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 08:11:19 -0600
Subject: Re: Windows 3.11 and DR DOS 7.02.
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Hi, Mark,
Terrific! It worked like a charm, and only costs me 3K of conventional
memory. I left "highbuffers" in the configuration; apparently it does not
mind that one. Thanks for the help...
Chuck.

On 1998-05-18 mwarchol AT flash DOT net said:
   >Hi Chuck,
   >Go and take the fileshigh and make it files not high, and take the
   >fcbshigh and make that fcbs only also not high.
   >Try it that way and let me know I think that'll work.  I have used
   >the multi=on and the /xmumbs both and they don't seem to cause the
   >emm error like the fcbs and files loaded high does.
   >Mark
   >On 1998-05-18 2ndsight AT taconic DOT net said:
   >2n>Hi listers,
   >2n>I hope somebody has some suggestions. I installed DR DOS 7.02
   >2n>about a month ago, and at that time I tested all my major
   >2n>applications, including Win3.11 to make sure they would run.
   >2n>They all did. During the past month I have been fine tuning my
   >2n>DOS, experimenting with the task manager, disk caching, stuffing
   >2n>upper memory blocks, and the like, but not rechecking all my
   >2n>applications after every change. I do not often run Windows, but
   >2n>I have one or two things that require it. Today for the first
   >2n>time in a long while I tried running one of them, and found that
   >2n>Windows no longer runs under DR DOS. It quits while loading with
   >2n>the message: Error: Unsupported MSDOS version.
   >2n>Then my memory manager reports an error somewhere and advises me
   >2n>to reboot immediately.
   >2n>I tried adding "win.com 6.22" to my setver.exe to no avail.
   >2n>I tried removing "share" and "taskmger" from my autoexec.bat also
   >2n>to no avail. I tried taking the "xmsumb" option off the emm386
   >2n>command line (the latest change I recall having made) to no
   >2n>avail. If it will be helpful, I include my configuration files
   >2n>below. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...
   >2n>-------config.sys-------
   >2n>DEVICE=C:\OPENDOS\EMM386.EXE MULTI DPMI=ON FRAME=NONE xmsumb
   >2n>DEVICE=C:\OPENDOS\DPMS.EXE
   >2n>DEVICE=C:\OPENDOS\DBLBUF.SYS
   >2n>HIBUFFERS=5
   >2n>FILESHIGH=50
   >2n>FCBSHIGH=4,0
   >2n>STACKS=0
   >2n>DOS=HIGH,UMB
   >2n>LASTDRIVE=J
   >2n>DEVICEHIGH=C:\OURS\PROVOX.EXE
   >2n>DEVICEHIGH=C:\CDROMDRV\CDMKE43.SYS /D:MVCD001 /R /SBP:220
   >2n>DEVICEHIGH=C:\MAIN\SJDRIVER.SYS
   >2n>DEVICEHIGH=C:\SB16\DRV\CTSB16.SYS /UNIT=0 /BLASTER=A:220 I:5 D:1
   >2n>H:5 DEVICEHIGH=C:\SB16\DRV\CTMMSYS.SYS
   >2n>DEVICEHIGH=C:\OPENDOS\ANSI.SYS
   >2n>DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\IFSHLP.SYS
   >2n>DEVICE=C:\OPENDOS\SETVER.EXE
   >2n>BREAK=ON
   >2n>FASTOPEN=512
   >2n>history=off
   >2n>COUNTRY=1,,C:\OPENDOS\COUNTRY.SYS
   >2n>SHELL=C:\4DOS600\4DOS.COM C:\4DOS600\ /P
   >2n>-------autoexec.bat-------
   >2n>@ECHO Off
   >2n>PATH
   >2n>C:\OPENDOS;C:\WINDOWS;C:\MAIN;C:\OURS;C:\DOSFAX;C:\NDW;C:\BC45\BI
   >2n>N;C :\J FW;C:\ SET SOUND=C:\SB16
   >2n>SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6
   >2n>SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E
   >2n>C:\SB16\DIAGNOSE /S
   >2n>C:\SB16\MIXERSET /P /Q
   >2n>for %%1 in ( f g h i j ) do subst %%1: d:\drive.%%1
   >2n>if not exist g:*.* goto nofiles
   >2n>for %%1 in (g:*.*) do del %%1 >nul
   >2n>:nofiles
   >2n>PROMPT $p$g
   >2n>set cdpath=c:\;d:\;f:\;g:\;h:\;i:\;j:\;
   >2n>set djgpp=c:\djgpp\djgpp.env
   >2n>set go32_v2_debug=y
   >2n>set PCTV=/BW
   >2n>LH NWCDEX /D:mvcd001 /L:E /V
   >2n>VERIFY OFF
   >2n>SHARE /L:20
   >2n>nwcache 2048 256 C:+ D:+ /DELAY=ON
   >2n>njtidy /n
   >2n>d:
   >2n>njtidy /n
   >2n>c:
   >2n>beep ^ timer
   >2n>diskopt c: /m1 /o
   >2n>timer ^ beep ^ timer
   >2n>diskopt d: /m1 /o
   >2n>timer ^ beep
   >2n>set bpath=;c:\brief\macros
   >2n>set bbackup=c:\backup
   >2n>set bhelp=c:\brief\help
   >2n>set bflags=-i120r -mCH
   >2n>SET TMP=C:\temp
   >2n>SET TEMP=C:\temp
   >2n>IF NOT DIREXIST %TEMP% MD %TEMP%
   >2n>SET OPENDOSCFG=C:\OPENDOS
   >2n>SET TMPDIR=C:\temp
   >2n>set tz=cst6cdt
   >2n>set editor=c:\ours\sss7.exe
   >2n>set whereis=-f -e -a
   >2n>set .nms=c:\ours\names.exe
   >2n>set .zip=c:\ours\unzip.bat
   >2n>lh C:\4DOS600\KSTACK.COM
   >2n>lh mode.com lpt1:80,6,P
   >2n>mode.com com2:9600,n,8,1
   >2n>echo atz > com2
   >2n>mode.com com3:9600,n,8,1,b
   >2n>lh print /D:com3
   >2n>c:\ahd\ahd3
   >2n>taskmgr /s
   >2n>pv dtpc
   >2n>chekcmos
   >2n>Chuck
   >2n>Second Sight Software
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