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From: "Da Silva, Joe" <Joe DOT DaSilva AT emailmetering DOT com>
To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: DOSBOOK, DRDOS.INI (was DR-DOS 7.03 Not Recognizing All Memor
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Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 10:45:02 +1100 
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Well, regarding DOSBOOK, I must say that one of it's problems is
that it is quite difficult to track down "low level" stuff with it, such as
CONFIG.SYS commands, batch language stuff, INI files, etc. It
really assumes that you will use SETUP to do everything and can
be rather frustrating!

WRT your KEDIT problem, perhaps using the M$W HIMEM.SYS
and M$W EMM386.EXE together (with DR-DOS) will work ... ?

WRT colours, yes(!) that stark white (inspired by Windoze?) is
terrible, particularly if your video card is crappy and flickers and
has no DOS drivers to "bump up" the refresh rate (this actually
causes ALL the card's frequencies to increase, including the
horrible flicker that afflicts many cards ...).

Note however, that SETUP _does_ provide the capability to set
your "system" colours, as used by many of the DR-DOS utilities,
including EDIT. Can't recall the exact menu within SETUP at the
moment, but just have a look around in SETUP - it should be
easy enough to find ... Once you find this, you will have a choice
of about eight different colour schemes. None of them are all
that pretty, but they are mostly much better than stark white!
It is even possible to modify these colour schemes and add
one or two of your own (not within SETUP, of course) - if you
are interested, I can "dig up" a colour scheme that I created a
while ago (by "trial and error") which is similar to the pre-6.0
Turbo Pascal IDE ...

Joe.
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Paul O. Bartlett [SMTP:bartlett AT smart DOT net]
> Sent:	Sunday, 31 December 2000 8:50
> To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject:	Re: DR-DOS 7.03 Not Recognizing All Memory
> 
>     Sorry I am so late in responding to this.
> 
> On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Florian Xaver wrote:
> 
> > [I originally wrote, concerning DR-DOS 7.03:]
> 
> > > [...]  My machine has 128MB RAM installed, and 'doozy recognizes all
> of
> > >it.  However, when I boot DR-DOS, the MEM command only reports on 64MB.
> 
> > >Is this a limitation of DR-DOS?
> > 
> > Yes, but you can fix it.
> > 
> > Write this before DEVICE=c:\drdos\emm386.exe [...] :
> > 
> > DEVICE=c:\windows\himem.sys
> > 
> > (don't use himem from Dr-DOS, use this one from Win98).
> > 
> > Then you can use all memory!
> 
>     I am still learning DR-DOS in my spare time and admit that I have
> not yet been able to get all the way through the DOSBOOK.  However, I
> did try what Florian suggested.  When I boot, DR-DOS complains about
> having both HIMEM.SYS and EMM386, but unfortunately, the message goes
> off the top of the screen.  The MEM command does report 128MB.  But
> apparently not everything is happy with it.  I installed my old copy of
> Mansfield's KEDIT, and it would only recognize 640KB.  When I took out
> HIMEM.SYS (from Windows 98), KEDIT would use 16MB.
> 
>     On another matter, in my C:\DRDOS there is a file DRDOS.INI. I
> cannot find it listed in the DOSBOOK index as to what it is for and
> what it does.  I did change the current color setting and that changed
> the color scheme in the DOSBOOK.  But unless there is someting I am
> missing, I do not know what the other settings in DRDOS.INI are good
> for.
> 
>     Color thing that is significant for me.  Back under MS-DOS 5, I
> used NDOS.COM from the Norton Utilities as my shell.  NDOS allowed me
> to set the forground and background colors as well as the overscan
> border on a VGA monitor (i.e., for command level itself, not DOSBOOK). 
> I liked this feature very much, as stark white on black is a little
> difficult for me.  But again, I haven't found any way to set colors in
> DR-DOS.
> 
>     Thanks.
> 
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