X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <006101c05614$1f71a4d0$a28a1004@dbcooper> From: "Patrick Moran" To: References: <819A5186A6F AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> <001301c05594$ab2df350$a28a1004 AT dbcooper> <2 DOT 07b7 DOT YMVX DOT G4IZ6W AT belous DOT munic DOT msk DOT su> Subject: Re: Optimizing CONFIG.SYS... Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 05:42:18 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arkady V.Belousov" To: Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 3:44 AM Subject: Re: Optimizing CONFIG.SYS... > X-Comment-To: Patrick Moran > > Hi! > > 23-ξΟΡ-2000 14:12 pmoran22 AT yahoo DOT com (Patrick Moran) wrote to > : > DRMOUSE is an old stealed CTMOUSE. I recommend to use latest CuteMouse > which is contain many bugfixes and uses only 3.3K instead of 7K of DRMOUSE. > Look at http:/www.vein.hu/~nagyd/ I'll give it a try. I have tried numerous mouse drivers and have not found a good one yet. > PM> PROMPT [DRDOS] $P$G > PM> ^ > PM> These can be loaded anytime. I did not notice any difference if I loaded > PM> them first. > > PROMPT is not a program, this is substitute for SET PROMPT statement, > also as PATH is a substitute for SET PATH statement. Yes, I know. they do not use any memory, that is why they can be used at anytime. > PM> SET TEMP=C:\TEMP > PM> SET TMP=C:\TMP > > Why you use different directory for %TMP%? I have always had both |TEMP and \TMP directories on all drives and partitions long before this variable was included in the AUTOEXEC. mainly, stupid WINDOWS will erase everything that exists in the TEMP directory. I keep files there from time to time, so I now use TMP for those files. I have had this habbit for many years and long before WINDOZE crap came around. > PM> SET NU=C:\NORT > > This variable required _only_ if you keep *.INI files separate from > *.EXE files (for example, if you copy *.EXE to RAMDISK). I do use RAMDISKs from time to time. Also I do have Norton's DESKTOP which does things a little differently and it put that into the AUTOEXEC, so I just leave it there. > PM> BREAK=OFF > > I recommend BREAK=ON - this gives slightly more control on apps running > for you. It slows down the computer, so I leave it off. > PM> FCBS=4,4 > PM> ^ > PM> I use the 4,4 because I experiment with QEMM. QEMM likes it. This > PM> gives me an additional 4 files, which I do not need, but some old > PM> programs still uses FCBS and if I play with CP/M I need it. > > I use FCBS=1 and have no problems with this. QEMM puts in in anyway. > PM>  37F:0000  COMMAND  1F0h, 496  Program  > PM>  39E:0000  COMMAND  210h, 528  Environment  > PM>  3BF:0000  MEM  1F0h, 496  Environment  > PM>  3DE:0000  MEM  15C20h, 89,120  Program  > PM>  19A0:0000  --------  859F0h, 547,312  FREE  > PM>  9F3F:0000  DOS  10C10h, 68,624  System  > PM> †€€€€€€€€€€€Š€€€€€€€€€€Š€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€Š€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€ €€‡ > PM>  B000:0000  --------  8000h, 32,768  ---------- Upper RAM ------------  > > By Manifest on my machine with DOS 6.22 and QEMM I have: > > ______________O\_/_________________________________\_/O______________ > 0050 - 006F 0.5K System Data > 0070 - 0149 3.4K DOS > 014A - 08CC 30K Program Area > 08CD - 9FFE 604K [Available] > 9FFF - 9FFF 0.1K Unused > ===Conventional memory ends at 640K==== > A000 - AFFF 64K VGA Graphics > _____________________________________________________________________ > O/~\ /~\O > > where Program area includes ~14K of Windows data. I get 622K so with WINDOZE I would probably get 608K, but who knows. I may find a way to increase that. > PM>  B02A:0000  DRMOUSE  1B60h, 7,008  Program  > > ______________O\_/_________________________________\_/O______________ > B5E7 - B6B6 3.3K CTMOUSE > _____________________________________________________________________ > O/~\ /~\O I'll give that a try. Have you used it loaded prior to running TASK MANAGER and using a communications program such as Terminate? How does it work with EGA, VGA and SVGA? I have another mouse driver that I can use for the higher res graphics, but it loads a secondary TSR and is a bit flaky when installing some of the mouse stuff high. It was made specifically for my mouse. (El cheapo.) Pat _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com