Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 16:33:37 +0100 From: Matthias Paul Subject: Re: Suggestions for DR-DOS To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Message-id: <380A71016ED@reze-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com On Tue, 13 Oct 1998 Guti wrote: > DISKCOPY, and DISKCOMP may use XMS, EMS, or disk and > so avoid changing disks when coping or comparing > from/to the same drive (also aplyable to > COPY, MOVE, XCOPY). A while ago I already answered this one. However, in the meantime I have looked this up and DISKCOPY and DISKCOMP actually use XMS, EMS, raw extended memory INT15, and hard disk swapping (if %TEMP% or %TMP% are defined). This is implemented since DR DOS 6.0 long before it partially found its way into MS-DOS/PC DOS. If this is not working in your configuration this is probably because the system does not properly provide extended or expanded memory (I recall a strange MEM output reported), or these environment variables have not been set, or you're trying to do this under Windows. Hope it helps, Matthias ------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthias Paul, Ubierstrasse 28, D-50321 Bruehl, Germany eMail: Web : http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Caldera Digital Research Systems/OpenLinux: http://www.caldera.com/