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Article #4132Re: Please help me configure Dos files Summary:
From: 713343234
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 00:00
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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