Pif settings and the high memory area

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2 total messages Started by Paul Magid Sun, 04 Oct 1992 01:12

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Author: Paul Magid
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1992 01:12

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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

Re: Pif settings and the high memory area

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Author: 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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