X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to opendos-bounces using -f Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 14:11:12 +1100 (EST) From: DONALD PEDDER To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: several technical problems Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Well, my message didn't make it through before because... > Please edit out the PC-DOS graphics characters. They make it look too > much like asian spam. ...so here we go again. :-) > If you still have Windows installed, you might be able to get rid of it > by right-clicking on the Recycle Bin and clicking Properties, selecting > "Configure drives independently" then tick the "Do not move files to the > Recycle Bin" box on the tab corresponding to the partition in question. I did that (even though I never delete anything on that partition when I'm in Windows), and then when I also did... > The easiest way to correct this problem is to run MS ScanDisk; It gave me the option of deleting the recycled directory. :-) I did that, and my problem was resolved. > Could you tell us more about 'this computer' (CPU, mainboard, BIOS, > memory, add-on cards, etc.)? Uh, I can try. :-) The CPU is a Celeron 466MHz, my system-board is "PC100 slot 1/socket 370 M741lmrt", AMIBIOS, memory is 64Mb, sound-cards,etc. are built-in to the system-board. > What is the GREEN command in your AUTOEXEC? It's just a little pascal program that sets my text-colour to green. Unfortunately, as soon as I use an app (like the editor) it reverts to white again. I've still not yet found out how to permanently set it to green. > Please try (1) with HIMEM.SYS instead of EMM386; (2) with EMM386, but > without NWCDEX. Using HIMEM.SYS worked, but there's still one bug. I can swap sessions okay with multiple editors open, but if I am logged on and swap from that session it hangs up the modem. :-( If I can sort out my memory shortage though then it's not a problem. > Could you redirect the output of MEM /A to a file (MEM /A > MEM.LST) and > post it to the list? Asian-spam looking stuff deleted. :-) Address Name Size Type 0:0000 -------- A0000h, 655,360 ------------- RAM ----- 0:0000 -------- 400h, 1,024 Interrupt vectors 40:0000 -------- 100h, 256 ROM BIOS data area 50:0000 DOS 200h, 512 DOS data area 70:0000 BIOS 900h, 2,304 Device drivers 70:0023 CON System device driver 70:0035 AUX System device driver 70:0047 PRN System device driver 70:0059 CLOCK$ System device driver 70:006B COM1 System device driver 70:007D COM2 System device driver 70:008F COM3 System device driver 70:00A1 COM4 System device driver 70:00C7 LPT1 System device driver 70:00D9 LPT2 System device driver 70:00EB LPT3 System device driver 70:016E A:-F: System device driver 100:0000 DOS 1400h, 5,120 System 100:0048 NUL System device driver 100:00CC DOS 10Fh, 271 HANDLES=3D, FCBS=3D 5 total blocks 240:0000 DOS 6B30h, 27,440 System 242:0000 DOS A5h, 165 HANDLES=, FCBS= 3 total blocks 24F:0000 EMMQXXX0 2F0h, 752 DEVICE installed device driver 27F:0000 DPMSXXX0 630h, 1,584 DEVICE = installed device driver 2E3:0000 SETVERXX 1F0h, 496 DEVICE = installed device driver =B3 303:0000 MSCD000 5240h, 21,056 DEVICE = installed device driver =B3 828:0000 DOS 98Ch, 2,444 HANDLES=, FCBS= 46 total blocks =B3 8F3:0000 COMMAND 1F0h, 496 Program 912:0000 COMMAND 210h, 528 Environment 933:0000 TASKMGR 140h, 320 Data 947:0000 NWCDEX E0h, 224 Environment 955:0000 NWCDEX 1C50h, 7,248 Program B1A:0000 TASKMGR E0h, 224 Environment B28:0000 TASKMGR 2A0h, 672 Program B52:0000 COMMAND 140h, 320 Data B66:0000 BITCOM E0h, 224 Environment B74:0000 BITCOM 49C10h, 302,096 Program 5535:0000 COMMAND E0h, 224 Data 5543:0000 COMMAND 1F0h, 496 Program 5562:0000 COMMAND 210h, 528 Environment 5583:0000 MEM E0h, 224 Environment 5591:0000 MEM 15C20h, 89,120 Program 6B53:0000 -------- 346C0h, 214,720 FREE 9FBF:0000 DOS 28410h, 164,880 System 9FC0:0000 -------- 400h, 1,024 Extended ROM BIOS data area C000:0000 -------- 8000h, 32,768 ------------- ROM ----- C800:0000 -------- 24000h, 147,456 ---------- Upper RAM -- C800:0000 EMM386 340h, 832 XMS Upper Memory Block C834:0000 DOS D50h, 3,408 System C909:0000 NWCACHE 15C0h, 5,568 XMS Upper Memory Block CA65:0000 NWCACHE 4010h, 16,400 XMS Upper Memory Block CE66:0000 DRMOUSE 1990h, 6,544 Program CFFF:0000 TASKMGR 3960h, 14,688 XMS Upper Memory Block D395:0000 COMMAND 2090h, 8,336 Data D59E:0000 -------- 16620h, 91,680 FREE EC00:0000 -------- 4000h, 16,384 ------------- ROM ----- F800:0000 -------- 1000h, 4,096 ---------- Shadow ROM - FFFF:00E0 COMMAND 2080h, 8,320 Program FFFF:2240 DOS F70h, 3,952 DOS BIOS code FFFF:31B0 DOS 7280h, 29,312 DOS kernel code FFFF:A430 DOS 1F2Ch, 7,980 BUFFERS= 15 disk buffers FFFF:C35C -------- D37h, 3,383 FREE FFFF:EE96 SHARE 115Ah, 4,442 Program Memory Type Total Bytes ( Kbytes ) Available For Programs Conventional 654,336 ( 639K ) 304,064 ( 297K ) Upper 147,456 ( 144K ) 91,680 ( 90K ) High 65,520 ( 64K ) 3,383 ( 3K ) Extended 57,606,144 ( 56,256K ) 0 ( 0K ) Extended via XMS -------- 48,076,800 ( 46,950K ) Largest executable program: 304,048 ( 297K ) Total Free DOS memory: 395,744 ( 386K ) This looks very handy. :-) This says I have 46Mb available via XMS - how do I make the programs use that? Also, for something that terminates without staying resident, how would I find out how much memory it is using? > Please tell us more about your system configuration. Like? I'm not really into the technical side, so if you want to find something out you need to tell me what commands to run or where I'm looking. e.g. I had never used the mem command until just now. > There is at least a few experienced TASKMGR users on the list, and I > hope you'll finally get multitasking to work. It's working okay now, other than the hanging up the modem issue. I had it running on an older computer (might've also been an older version), so it's frustrating that when I "upgrade" it's not working properly anymore (however, I encounter this all the time at work - every single "upgrade" we have ever had has made life more difficult in fact). > Remember, as far as anything running in *any* DOS is concerned, you > hsave no more than 640k of RAM (768 if you play certain games). I didn't think that would be an issue, but having done "mem /a" now, I can see that I've already used up half my (640k) memory. I guess I need to do some fine-tuning of my memory usage? > Well, you should move any files you need to another directory, then > remove the hidden attribute (use the attrib command) and then remove the > directory. I went into the recycled directory and did "attrib -h *.*", but it didn't find anything. I then went back to the root directory and did "attrib -h recycled" and it tells me "file not found". So, I wasn't able to clear it in DOS, but the Windows approach worked. Is there a DOS utility I can run which'll make sure I don't have any LFN's hanging around on the disk? I want to keep it clean so that I can run delwatch/diskopt on it. thanks, DONALD. 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