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Re: MS-DOS 5.0: Where the @*%! is loadhigh? (followup)

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From: Ernest Chuang
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 19:46
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In article <23721@shlump.lkg.dec.com> reisert@mast.enet.dec.com (Jim Reisert) writes:
>
>In article <1991Jun20.090306.25375@agate.berkeley.edu>,
>	echuang@plague.Berkeley.EDU (Ernest Chuang) writes...
>>
>>Oops...I just checked the manual again and realized it was an internal
>>command, so it shouldn't be on the disks; but still, it doesn't seem
>>to recognize either "loadhigh" or "lh" ("devicehigh" works just fine).
>>Has anyone else had this problem?
>
>Are you sure you're running the COMMAND.COM that came with DOS 5.0 (and not
>4DOS, for example)?  If you are using 4DOS, you can use the command:
>
>	command /c loadhigh <your program here>
>
>to use DOS's LOADHIGH command
>
>- Jim

Thanks!  I am using 4DOS, so this was the problem.  But as a follow-up
question, what's the proper syntax for using "loadhigh" in conjunction
with "install" in the config.sys (specifically for Fastopen)?  The above 
suggested line works fine in my autoexec.bat, but when I try:

	install=command.com /c loadhigh c:\dos\fastopen.exe c:=(150,150)

I get the boot-up message "Fastopen installed.  Error in config.sys line 8"
which is the above line.  (I don't get the error when I remove that line).
It *does* load fastopen into the UMB according to mem /c, but it's kind of
irritating to get that error message every time I reboot.  I've tried a few
minor variations such as removing the extensions .com and .exe, removing
the /c switch, and just doing a straight install=loadhigh c:\dos..., but
they all give me outright errors and don't load Fastopen successfully.
(Obviously I'm just going by trial and error, but I can't seem to find the
answer in the manual :-)  Can anyone see my mistake?

	- Ernest
	  echuang@ocf.berkeley.edu
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From: echuang@plague.Berkeley.EDU (Ernest Chuang)
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Subject: Re: MS-DOS 5.0: Where the @*%! is loadhigh? (followup)
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