Hello Glenn - ... [...] ... Good to hear. I use W3x because I like using it. :-) If you haven't already tried adding TAME and MemoryValet to your W3x I...
Charles Angelich
cangelich@...
Nov 1, 2002 9:51 am
17897
... I have Windows 3.1 installed on two of my machines, and run it occasionally to use some older graphics programs I have that demand Windows. Both machines...
Robert C Wittig
rwittig@...
Nov 1, 2002 11:48 am
17898
Hi Charles, The fact that I had to do more than just download pkzip 2.5 DOS helped fix the time period. Anchored it in time. Pkzip 2.5 for Windows was...
Garry Hamilton
kidrhino@...
Nov 1, 2002 6:24 pm
17899
... My machines boot to dos for safety as much as to use DOS. If W31 goes haywire I don't want to search for a DOS boot disk. Executing W31 from the command...
Charles Angelich
cangelich@...
Nov 1, 2002 7:06 pm
17900
Hello Gary - ... OK, makes sense. ... I didn't hear about that. ... I have the distinct impression the alcohol was making the decisions. ... [...] ... Katz...
Charles Angelich
cangelich@...
Nov 1, 2002 7:08 pm
17901
... So did I. Yet I seldom find the need to use PKZIP 2.5; I just keep a copy of it zipped somewhere for occasional use. About the only limitation with 2.5...
Jerry J. Haumberger
jerryjh@...
Nov 1, 2002 9:13 pm
17902
Hi Folks, ... Actually, so did I. ... I agree with that, wholeheartedly. There is still a note of his death on my Links, ZIPs and Resources page. It will...
Ron Clarke
ariadne@...
Nov 3, 2002 10:36 pm
17903
Hi all, I am having trouble running the DOS app; Arachne(arachne.cz) normally it would run with my 8MB RAM if I rem'ed out everything in my autoexec.bat and...
ANDY
geoghega@...
Nov 4, 2002 9:17 pm
17904
Hello Andy - ... [...] As you have discovered adding memory can't increase the low memory available. It's locked in at 1 meg max. :-) [...] ... Here you could...
Charles Angelich
cangelich@...
Nov 4, 2002 10:04 pm
17905
... Andy, I don't have experience with DRDos, but it appears to me that you are not using any of the extended RAM you installed. So I would guess that you may...
Glenn Gilbreath Jr.
wizard57m@...
Nov 5, 2002 1:51 am
17906
Hello Glenn - At 07:40 PM 11/4/02 CST, you wrote: Just a suggestion? You really don't need to quote the entire message when you have no comment(s) to make...
Charles Angelich
cangelich@...
Nov 5, 2002 4:30 am
17907
In a message dated 11/4/02 10:52:58 PM Central Standard Time, LISTSERV@... writes: << As you have discovered adding memory can't increase the low...
Gary Gary
GaryLetC@...
Nov 5, 2002 5:04 am
17908
Charles, I only get the twice daily or so "digest" of SurvPC at SoftCon...so, while you may have replied, I did not get anything until later... in fact, in...
Glenn Gilbreath Jr.
wizard57m@...
Nov 5, 2002 6:50 am
17909
Andy, Another thing to try, in addition to increasing the environment size, to at least "1024" is to increase the "FILES", for Arachne it may be a good idea to...
Glenn Gilbreath Jr.
wizard57m@...
Nov 5, 2002 6:54 am
17910
Hello Glenn - ... I wasn't sure but I suspected there was some lack of communication involved. ... He said he was unable to return to MSDOS. I guess you could...
Charles Angelich
cangelich@...
Nov 5, 2002 10:38 am
17911
Hello Glenn - Another thing you might suggest to Andy is that I do not read any reference to his DPMI services being initialized prior to loading Arachne. ... ...
Charles Angelich
cangelich@...
Nov 5, 2002 10:40 am
17912
Hi Charles, ... Hmm... ISTR OpenDOS 7 (now DR-DOS 7) does have a HIMEM.SYS, but it's only used on pre-386 machines (i.e. those that can't run EMM386.EXE). I...
Ben A L Jemmett
ben.jemmett@...
Nov 5, 2002 11:23 am
17913
Hello Ben - ... Yes, it does have a file by that name. The file is NOT for the same purpose as MSDOS HIMEM.SYS and therefore not relevant as a part of the...
Charles Angelich
cangelich@...
Nov 5, 2002 7:16 pm
17914
Hi Andy, Your problem is that you are not loading enough drivers in high memory. The following drivers should have LH before them. If it doesn't load high it...
Inigo M.de Azagra y d...
imazagra@...
Nov 5, 2002 7:36 pm
17915
Hello Andy - ... [...] ... "DEVICEHIGH" will not work this way. To load 'high' the EMM386.EXE has to be loaded. You're trying to load 'high' with no high...
Charles Angelich
cangelich@...
Nov 5, 2002 8:35 pm
17916
Hello Inigo - ... That and trying to load EMM386 high. LOL ... That line does exist in his posted config.sys but it should be moved to the third line from ...
Charles Angelich
cangelich@...
Nov 5, 2002 8:44 pm
17917
... I know; my point was that there is actually a file called HIMEM.SYS that shouldn't be used, in case the OP saw the file existed (you said DR-DOS didn't...
Ben A L Jemmett
ben.jemmett@...
Nov 5, 2002 8:49 pm
17918
hi all, I tried following mostly Glenn McCorkle's advice I forgot to tell everyone that my zip drive is a *parallel port* drive; *NOT* SCSI!! I ended up with...
ANDY
geoghega@...
Nov 5, 2002 10:57 pm
17919
... On OpenDOS/DR-DOS, is with MS-DOS, you can hit F5 during the start of the boot (when the "Starting <whatever> DOS..." message appears) to bypass the ...
Ben A L Jemmett
ben.jemmett@...
Nov 5, 2002 11:06 pm
17920
Also, change the frame=none to say frame=E000 This will give a little additional upper memory for loading programs in case you're running low. There's also...
Travis Siegel
tsiegel@...
Nov 6, 2002 4:03 am
17921
OK, firstly, DEVICEHIGH makes no sense for EMM386, since nothing yet knows how to load stuff high at that point. Use DEVICE instead ... Secondly, what is...
Joe da Silva
joe.dasilva@...
Nov 6, 2002 8:11 am
17922
Hi all, thanks to Scott McNay and others who suggested I push down the F5 or F8 key during boot-up... I pushed down the F8 key and did get to the DOS C:\> ...
ANDY
geoghega@...
Nov 6, 2002 12:34 pm
17923
Hi all... here is my memory map with my new autoexec.bat and config.sys files modeled after Glenn McCorkle's posted system files... the sound card, even though...
ANDY
geoghega@...
Nov 6, 2002 2:07 pm
17924
Hi all, my sound card probably is loaded... my speakers became unplugged :) I guess I could rem out the DPMS entry notice that HIMEM.SYS is/was rem'ed out in...
ANDY
geoghega@...
Nov 6, 2002 3:18 pm
17925
this was a BIG help! Thank you! my computer now boots properly Glenn; please post those iomega files to a web page -thank you in advance is it possible to stay...
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