Re: Re file

[Mark Garvey dutch_garvey@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks to everyone for all the info on my file size
question. I'm still experimenting with config.sys, and
I will try out all the tweaks you folks recommended.
One thing, though, the default DR tweak to my
startup.int didn't seem to take, and I'm not sure why.
I'm sure I've got the line correctly formed. I'm not
finished trying with that though, and I may post my
startup file later and ask for a bit of
troubleshooting help.

In the meantime, thanks again. I appreciate the help.
Hope all of you are having the weather we're having in
Cincinnati today.

Mark


--- Patricia M Godfrey  wrote:
> Jordan and Robert are right (of course) in saying
> that the problem is
> probably your spec for your TEMP file. But it might
> also help to have a
> config.sys file that loads EMM386. That will give
> you access to expanded
> memory, which I know Xy 4 uses, but forget whether
> III can. Even if it
> can't, if you're loading any 16-bit hardware drivers
> (which I should
> imagine you must be on a laptop), you want EMM386 so
> you can LOAD them
> High, and get them out of converntional (under 640
> K) RAM, thus freeing
> it for Xy and its files. A further wrinkle is that
> though IO.SYS
> automatically loads HIMEM.SYS (a real-mode driver)
> even if it's not
> mentioned in config.sys, IF you're going to load
> EMM386.EXE in
> CONFIG.SYS, you have to include the command
> device-himem.sys
> in CONFIG.SYS, before
> device=EMM386.EXE
> That's because IO.SYS looks in CONFIG.SYS _before_
> it automatically loads
> HIMEM.SYS, and chokes on the command to load
> EMM386.EXE, since HIMEM.SYS
> isn't loaded yet.
> (Thanks to Livington & Straub's Windows 98
> Secrets for that bit of
> info.)
>
> So a CONFIG.SYS file should read something like
> this:
> device=c:\[path here if it's not in the
> root]himem.sys
> device=c:\[path here if it's not in the
> root]emm386.exe ram
> dos=high,UMB
> devicehigh=[and here include any 16-bit drivers that
> you need]
>
> Jordan's MEM command will show your memory usage. An
> alternative version
> uses /p rather than |MORE (easier to type, at least
> for me, but chacun a
> son gout--and I'm horrifying my father's shade by
> omitting the grave and
> circonflex, because we've seen that the UPENN server
> sometimes chokes on
> accents).
>
> Unfortunately, if you include commands in CONFIG.SYS
> and AUTOEXEC.BAT,
> they'll run when Windows loads too. And with only 48
> Mb, that's going to
> be pretty tight for 98 (first or SE?) One solution
> would be to create a
> bootfloppy with your DOS config.sys and
> autoexec.bat, and boot from that
> when you're going to run DOS. Then boot from the
> hard drive, with no
> Config.sys and autoexec.bat, when you want to run
> Windows. There's
> another workaround, but it's a goshawful kludge that
> involves booting to
> Win, then doing a warm reboot to a special DOS
> session with its own
> parameters.
>
> If you're going to boot from a floppy, you might
> want to hunt around and
> see if you can get a copy of NOvell DOS 7 on e-bay
> or from a liquidator.
> That's what they always ran Xy on at TTG, and what I
> used before I was
> dragged (kicking and screaming) into the morass of
> Redmond.
>
> Hope this helps. And yes, your first post got
> through to me OK. (As does
> too much rubbish. Spam, grr.)
> Patricia
>


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