DOS ain't dead - DR-DOS CONFIG.SYS settings

DR-DOS CONFIG.SYS settings (Miscellaneous)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 01.12.2007, 09:26

> > I don't really know either (interrupt stack or some b.s.). That's why
> it's
> > best to avoid it unless you know otherwise. Something about IBM PC
> > compatibles need ... while others need .... (I can check DR-DOS'
> > DOSBOOK.EXE later today for you, if you want.) Nevermind, I can boot
> > FreeDOS in QEMU and use it's HELP.EXE:
>
> I removed it and I did`nt recognize a change.
>

DR-DOS 7.03's DOSBOOK says something like this: "STACKS are 0,0 for IBM PCs and PC/XTs and 9,128 for others." I dunno if that means by default (probably) or something to manually set. Either way, it's probably not accurate for modern (> 486) computers. I can't remember exactly, but I think SETUP /A reports my P166 as a 486. So, it's woefully out of date (as some would say). Hence the reason that FreeDOS has replaced/improved a lot of functionality.

> > Well, I use a lot of SUBST drives (H: -> HOME, P: -> PROJECTS, Z: ->
> > C:\ZIPS), so I personally need it (usually) unless mostly clean
> booting.
> > If you don't do similar, you probably don't need it. (Besides, DR-DOS
> > allegedly supports beyond that even: LASTDRIVE=32)
>
> Ok , I fill it by 32 instead of driver Z
>

Why? :-) Unless you have that many drives, you're just wasting memory. :-)

> I removed HISTORY, but toddy is a little bit diferent from UNIX doskey
> style?
>

* "toddy" brings up a menu of your cmdline history.
* "toddy /ml" shows you all your macros.
* "toddy blah=echo hello, $1 $t cls $s" says hello to parameter #1 while cls afterwards (the $s is parameter sink since parameters are passed to cls otherwise which probably won't work)
* "toddy /ow" writes your current setup (macros, etc.) to TODDY.CFG although you can also write to TODDY.COM itself

There's also adjustable history and macro size (among a billion other options). However, I've found that TODDY doesn't work w/ FreeDOS' FreeCOM (which has limited history support built-in by default). Oh well.

> Many thanks for prompter how to improve system files.

BTW, just to be ultra pedantic, here's two things I changed recently:

* CONFIG.SYS -- changed all REM to ; (for floppies, that could save a whole cluster, w00t!)
* CONFIG.SYS -- if you use SWITCH, apparently using ":himemumb" (HIMEM/UMBPCI) and ":himem" (HIMEM only) won't work b/c "goto himem" will always go to ":himemumb" (bug?), so you have to rename ":himem" to ":himem2" and then it'll work.

P.S. You can SET, ECHO, CHAIN, CPOS, GOSUB in CONFIG.SYS. In fact, w/ DR-DOS' COMMAND.COM, you can GOSUB, IF ... AND, IF ... OR, ECHOS, ECHOERR, etc. Of course, Lucho would tell you that 4DOS is much better. :-P

If you want more help/info, just ask. :-)

> David

Post reply

Complete thread:

Upper memory on notebook - david, 22.11.2007, 08:42 (Miscellaneous)
- Upper memory on notebook - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 12:54
  - Upper memory on notebook - Japheth, 22.11.2007, 13:58
    - Upper memory on notebook - david, 24.11.2007, 09:21
      - Upper memory on notebook - Japheth, 24.11.2007, 10:18
        Upper memory on notebook - david, 24.11.2007, 19:55
        Upper memory on notebook - Japheth, 25.11.2007, 09:05
        Upper memory on notebook - david, 25.11.2007, 09:26
        Upper memory on notebook - Japheth, 25.11.2007, 21:48
        Upper memory on notebook - david, 26.11.2007, 13:19
        Upper memory on notebook - Steve, 26.11.2007, 13:35
        Upper memory on notebook - Japheth, 26.11.2007, 14:15
        Upper memory on notebook - Rugxulo, 26.11.2007, 18:12
        Upper memory on notebook - david, 27.11.2007, 10:15
        Upper memory on notebook - Japheth, 27.11.2007, 11:20
        Upper memory on notebook - david, 27.11.2007, 12:37
        Upper memory on notebook - rr, 26.11.2007, 10:35
      - Upper memory on notebook - Rugxulo, 28.11.2007, 13:37
        Upper memory on notebook - david, 28.11.2007, 19:12
        DR-DOS CONFIG.SYS settings - Rugxulo, 29.11.2007, 10:38
        DR-DOS CONFIG.SYS settings - david, 29.11.2007, 18:56
        DR-DOS CONFIG.SYS settings - Rugxulo, 01.12.2007, 09:26
        DR-DOS CONFIG.SYS settings - Steve, 01.12.2007, 10:02
        DR-DOS CONFIG.SYS settings - david, 01.12.2007, 16:33
        DR-DOS CONFIG.SYS settings - Rugxulo, 01.12.2007, 22:56
        DR-DOS CONFIG.SYS settings - david, 01.12.2007, 16:29
        DR-DOS CONFIG.SYS new settings + Arachne - david, 01.12.2007, 18:31
        DR-DOS CONFIG.SYS new settings + Arachne - Rugxulo, 01.12.2007, 22:51
        symlinks_djgpp - david, 02.12.2007, 11:58
        symlinks_djgpp - Rugxulo, 04.12.2007, 09:04
        symlinks_djgpp - david, 04.12.2007, 19:55