Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 14:07:19 +0100 From: Matthias Paul Subject: Re: How to look for the DOS BIOS code? To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Message-id: <4273C0C37E9@reze-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com On DH473 AT AOL DOT COM Wed, 21 Oct 1998: > Indeed, thats the point. I made my version of ....DOS 7.02 loading the > resident part of the first copy of COMMAND.COM into HMA with the SIZE=nnnn > switch (discussion in May about Memory optimization help... ). But that kicks > the BIOS kernel (which is less in size) off of the HMA - nice relocatable > feature :-( . This glitch slipped in due to the Novell DOS updates sources missing approx. a year ago, when I re-engineered these changes from the binaries and added new stuff... At the same time, COMMAND was growing because of its added LFN support, hence all this trouble. > >I can't imagine what you plan to do with this information... > Just to transform an ugly, unreliable and disgraceful patch into a little bit > more reliable one. ;-) It looks to me, that this is no longer necessary. Please try out the IBMBIO, IBMDOS, and COMMAND binaries available in the BETA update section of Caldera s web-site... 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/