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Re: Please help me configure Dos files Summary:

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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 00:00
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In <460l1q$eig@news.service.uci.edu>, hawkins@aldebaran.oac.uci.edu (Donovan Hawkins) writes:
>In article <45i922$ju0@solar.sky.net>,
>Jason Neufeld <neudy@solar.sky.net> wrote:
>>Could someone please help me configure Dos!
>>I'm running a P-75 under Win'95, I want to run a demo that requires
>>580 of conventional memory plus some expanded memory (1024?), I can't
>>seem to get it to run at all under Win'95, and am not sure it would anyway,
>>what I would like to do is to get it to run under dos.  I have a icon
>>reconfigured to boot with a config.sys and autoexec.bat.  The current
>>configuration gives me about 565 of ram and no expanded, when I change 
>>the 
>>emm386 from noems to ram for the expanded, it eats a chunk of my 
>>conventional memory (down to 520 or something).  I'm not sure if all of 
>>(send comments to neudy@sky.net)
>>
>>Heres my config.sys
>>DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
>>DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS
>Try DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE AUTO RAM FRAME=NONE
>See if that expanded memory works with you app.
>
>>BUFFERS=22,0
>>FILES=30
>>DOS=UMB
>>LASTDRIVE=Z
>Unless you have 26 drives, change this to LASTDRIVE=D or whatever it is.
>
>>FCBS=4,0
>>DEVICEHIGH /L:1,16976 =C:\WINDOWS\SETVER.EXE
>You can remove this line to run a single program as long as it doesn't mind
>(most dont).
>
>>DOS=HIGH
>>DEVICEHIGH /L:1,11808 =C:\CDROM\TORISAN.SYS /D:TSYCD3 /P:SM
>Do you need the CD for this program? If not, remove this.
>
>>DEVICEHIGH /L:1,15840 =C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\DRVSPACE.SYS /MOVE
>If you put the program, and everything else which is critical (the OS, etc) on
>the uncompressed drive (isn't 95 already there?), maybe you could leave this
>out too.
>
>>
>>Heres autoexec.bat
>>LH /L:1,51248 C:\windows\command\MSCDEX.EXE /D:TSYCD3
>Again, do you need the CD?
>
>>@ECHO OFF
>>PROMPT $p$g
>>SET MSINPUT=C:\MSINPUT
>>LH /L:0;1,25056 /S C:\MSINPUT\mouse\MOUSE.exe /Q
>Do you need the mouse?
>
>>PATH C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\DOS
>>SET TEMP=C:\DOS
>>SET BLASTER=A220 Ixx Dx T1
>>SET SNDSCAPE=C:\SNDSCAPE
>>C:\SNDSCAPE\SSINIT.EXE /I
>
>After making changes, remove the /L:--- from all the LH and DEVICEHIGH lines.
>Then try it again.
>
>If it still doesn't run, but shows enough memory, remove the FRAME=NONE. If it
>still doesn't have enough memory, and you weren't able to lose the CD or 
>DRIVESPACE, consider it. If you can drop one (the CD, for example), this will
>give you all the memory you need. Also, check the docs for the CD driver and
>MSCDEX: both should have a default value for the buffers which could be 
>decreased.
>
>If all else fails, multiboot to true DOS 6.22 and memmaker whatever is left
>after you trim, and try avoiding WIN95 alltogether (95 does leave a teeny bit
>behind, I think...no guarantees!)
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Donovan Hawkins                            Department of Physics and Astronomy
>hawkins@uci.edu                            University of California, Irvine
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------

What are you doing at the University of California?

Win'95 has been created for dummies'95.

Sell your vindoughs and get OS/2 boysheek.
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Subject: Re: Please help me configure Dos files Summary:
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