Michael L. Dawley wrote:
>> B> It's what's reserved by default (in MS-DOS anyway) unless you let the
>> B> computer actually use it for something (and that's what the emm386
switch
>> B> "highscan" does IIRC.
>> No ... it's the switch RAM !!! (or noems)
>> Highscan makes EMM use a VERY aggressive method to search for additional
>> memory. (computer may crash, when this switch is used)
Oh, well I've always used both of them (noems and highscan) this is IMHO a
good practice.
>I need to know if what I am using for my config.sys is still ok
>in light of the above.
>DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
>DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS HIGHSCAN
>BUFFERS=20,0
>FILES=75
>DOS=HIGH,UMB
>LASTDRIVE=E
>FCBS=16,8
>DEVICEHIGH /L:1,12048 =C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE
>SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM C:\DOS\ E:1024 /p
This is of course depending on your view. IMO You should drop the /L: part
when you're loading setver. The FCBS might be a little high as well (since
they are mostly used for really old programs IIRC). Some here will argue
about the buffers and files statments beeing to large, quite frankly I have
no idea if these are any good (nor if mine are) <g>. Others on this list
can probably inform us on which is best suited for them.
But what I also would do is increase the lastdrive statment. But that's
might be since I like to use SUBST if I need an easy way to reach two
diffrent directories on the same partition (ex. "subst u: k:\prog" (T is my
first free drive - but I've always liked U for some reason)). Also usefull
if you have a network and need to map another computers HD/CD.
You could also put command.com on a RAMDrive and use that one as your shell
(requires changes to autoexce.bat) this way smartdrv doesn't need to
remember that specific file which comes up from time to time. Of course
with low memmory this is probably a bad thing to do.
//Bernie
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