Hans-Juergen wrote:
>The HMA is used by the first program that calls for its use during
>the boot sequence, but that can be changed with switches to their
>command lines. Normally MS-DOS itself will use this 64k space, if
>there's a line like DOS=HIGH in the config.sys. DOS=UMB means -
>well, take a guess... ;-)
And DOS=HIGH,UMB means what then?
I would recomend that you do a "help dos" in MS-DOS 5.0 or above, the
syntax is:
dos=low|high,[umb|noumb]
UMB makes the UMB available to DOS (granted M$have screwed up the
translation but that's what I remember from the two DOS courses I went
95/96 - to bad we don't have any easy courses like that anymore :(
>And another BTW: Those of you who use a MS-DOS version newer than 5.0
>can get extensive help to all DOS commands by just typing "help" or
>"help emm386.exe" (for example) and will be lead to the new DOS help
>screen that is even mouse-clickable for those who need it... ;-)
>The advantage of this help system is that it is easier to use and it
>goes much more into details (with examples etc.) than the short one-
>page-only-syntax-screens of the older versions.
And "fasthelp emm386.exe" will give the old one :)
Actually if you want to be able to use fasthelp on a program that didn't
come with DOS there's a file (doshelp.hlp) which you can edit. (In fact
fasthelp only searches the doshelp.hlp file and if it finds the
command/program it will do ex. "emm386.exe/?")
But in fact the content of the file doshelp.hlp is useless since only the
program names are in there. So, it can be removed if you want to, together
with fasthelp.exe, and voila I've saved 17K (actually 24K due to allocated
units).
//Bernie
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