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Article #26346Re: DOS 3.3 feature vaporware?
From: Bob Weissman
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1988 18:30
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1988 18:30
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In article <Apr.12.12.26.22.1988.14955@athos.rutgers.edu>, dpz@athos.rutgers.edu (David P. Zimmerman) writes:
> I was looking through my MS-DOS 3.30 manual and found a nifty feature
> called "drivparm" that you can stick in your CONFIG.SYS file.
>
> However, try as I might (and try as another DOS wizard here might),
> all that I can get spit out at boot time is a complaint about
> "drivparm" being an unrecognized command.
Yes, "drivparm" does not work in DOS 3.3.
I corresponded with a MicroSoft rep on CompuServe about this and he
said it will probably become available as a free upgrade some time
in the future. (In the mean time, they're getting dozens of calls
about it!)
So you still have to use device=driver.sys ... instead.
--
Bob Weissman
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!acornrc!bob From: bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: DOS 3.3 feature vaporware? Message-ID: <708@acornrc.UUCP> Date: 12 Apr 88 18:30:53 GMT References: <Apr.12.12.26.22.1988.14955@athos.rutgers.edu> Organization: Acorn Research Center, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 23 Summary: Yes, it's vapor