Re: Pif settings and the high memory area

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From: Mark Cosham
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1992 05:42

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magid@ocf.berkeley.edu (Paul Magid) writes:

>My computer is strange.  Ever since I installed my GENOA (Do not buy from this
>crappy company) 8800 I have had the mouse on drugs problem.  The only way for 
>me to solve this is by checking the "Uses high memory area" check box in all
>the pifs of the dos boxes I run.  Now my question  is: can I make the "uses 
>high memory area" option globally the default so that if I start up a dos 
>program that does not have a pif I will not see the infuriating mouse bug.
>In other words I am looking for a win.ini or system.ini setting that will
>solve this problem.

>Thanks a ton in advance.


>Paul

Any DOS program that does not have it's own PIF file will use the _DEFAULT.PIF
file in your windows directory.  Set the option in this file, or create it
if it doesn't exist.

Mark
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