Hi Bastiaan!
30 Nov 2002, "Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> BF> They have to be activated with config.sys when booting.
>> BF> So at the start of config.sys I added the following two lines:
>> BF> DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\himem.sys
>> use /testmem:off /numhandles=64
BF> Would you please explain what thes commands mean and/or do
first simply omits memory checking, which will not find any errors anyways, but
take long to execute.
The second raises the number of XMS (?) handles.
I have fotgotten why I needed it, anyways it does no harm ... :)
>> BF> DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\emm386.exe RAM
>> do you need EMS ??
BF> I don't know..
>> i guess not, so change RAM to NOEMS
>> try also to add i=b000-b7ff
BF> Would you please explane what this means and/or do
includes otherwise unused memory, which was used for monochrom video cards, and
is now unused.
>> have you DOS=HIGH ??
BF> Yes, and also in config.sys DOS=UMB
put it together dos=high,umb
>> use another cdrom driver, they all work the same, and this one uses
>> VERY much memory.
BF> First I had another cdrom driver but something was wrong with it
BF> I am just glad the CD-ROM player is working now
try another one :)
>> PS: the arachne.exe only starts with MZ, because arachne
>> automatically gunzips it !!
BF> ***********************
BF> All .exe programs for DOS ought to start with MZ, as eg. .gif starts
BF> with GIF Why should Arachne gunzips ara171ue.exe if this file is a
BF> real .exe with the correct size at the source (Glenn) and arrives at
BF> the destination with the correct size and uncorrupted at the
BF> destination (eg. me)? First question: where got it gzipped between
BF> source and destination? Second question: why should it be gzipped?
BF> ***********************
see discussion :)
because the webserver packs it.
BF> CU, Bastiaan
CU, Ricsi
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