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Re: DR DOS EMM386 Error

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From: James Hightower
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 20:04
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kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay) writes:
>One more time - EMM386.SYS loads _by itself_, without config.sys entry, but
>I can't find out why, although I assume it's because of the SSTOR drives.. I
>can't get rid of it...

>(I may have to wipe the disk and reboot with QEMM.SYS, and THEN try using
>SSTOR, but it's more work than I want to take on right now.)

If you are using SSTOR then EMM386 is loaded in a file called DCONFIG.SYS.
When you boot a SSTOR drive, DRDOS looks in DCONFIG.SYS and loads anything 
there just as if it was a CONFIG.SYS. The last things in DCONFIG are a driver
that switches C and D:, making C: the compressed disk and D: the uncompressed
disk, and then a CHAIN command to chain to CONFIG.SYS.
If you want to load a different EMM driver, you need to put it in D:DCONFIG.SYS
. Have I confused you? I've confused me. Good luck. JJH
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Subject: Re: DR DOS EMM386 Error
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Date: 27 Aug 92 20:04:32 GMT
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