[Freedos-user] Loading device drivers from autoexec.bat
and if I can add a question 4 to the list: 4. Can I load device drivers from autoexec.bat? (essentially moving my menus from config.sys to autoexec.bat) Thanks From: Michelle Dupuis [mdup...@ocg.ca] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 1:28 PM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Menu in config.sys not working I just found my answer in the online doc :) so now the tougher questions: 1. Can I have more than 9 options in a menu 2. How does freedos know that I have picked a valid option (how do I tell freedos which numbers in use) 3. Can I have 3 nested menus? (My current MSDOS config.sys has 3 menus, one after the other)... Thanks From: Michelle Dupuis [mdup...@ocg.ca] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 1:16 PM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Freedos-user] Menu in config.sys not working I'm switching my MSDOS usb key to FREEDOS now, and my fancy menu system (buit in config.sys) doesn't work under freedos (just scrolls right past during bootup). Is the menu feature not available in the freedos version of config.sys? Or does it work differently? Thanks -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Loading device drivers from autoexec.bat
yes, and also from the command line: just use devload from the distribution. help devload for more info. (devload is on the full dist.) locate devload finds it on the full install set up by the full dist. . eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com From: Michelle Dupuis mdup...@ocg.ca To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 2:05 PM Subject: [Freedos-user] Loading device drivers from autoexec.bat and if I can add a question 4 to the list: 4. Can I load device drivers from autoexec.bat? (essentially moving my menus from config.sys to autoexec.bat) Thanks From: Michelle Dupuis [mdup...@ocg.ca] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 1:28 PM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Menu in config.sys not working I just found my answer in the online doc :) so now the tougher questions: 1. Can I have more than 9 options in a menu 2. How does freedos know that I have picked a valid option (how do I tell freedos which numbers in use) 3. Can I have 3 nested menus? (My current MSDOS config.sys has 3 menus, one after the other)... Thanks From: Michelle Dupuis [mdup...@ocg.ca] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 1:16 PM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Freedos-user] Menu in config.sys not working I'm switching my MSDOS usb key to FREEDOS now, and my fancy menu system (buit in config.sys) doesn't work under freedos (just scrolls right past during bootup). Is the menu feature not available in the freedos version of config.sys? Or does it work differently? Thanks -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Loading device drivers from autoexec.bat
Op 13-10-2011 20:05, Michelle Dupuis schreef: and if I can add a question 4 to the list: 4. Can I load device drivers from autoexec.bat? (essentially moving my menus from config.sys to autoexec.bat) Thanks Most drivers can be loaded from autoexec.bat and/or commandline (runtime). It's not recommended for memory drivers as you'll miss out on the benefits of DOS=HIGH , DOS=UMB and DOSDATA=UMB , especially for something like command.com itself which can consume a lot of low memory. Most .sys drivers can be loaded using the DEVLOAD program (version 3.25 recommended), other programs have a runtime commandline as well (JEMM386, JEMMEX). @echo off echo Loading CDROM driver: DEVLOAD UIDE.SYS /D:MYCDROM /N1 /N3 /B echo loading XMS driver (no HMA, sorry!) : DEVLOAD XMGR.SYS echo loading EMS driver (no UMBs, sorry!): JEMM386 LOAD echo Loading ramdisk in 2 steps: DEVLOAD /DR TDSK.EXE 100 TDSK.EXE echo Loading cd-rom extensions: SHSUCDX /D:MYCDROM,X *From:* Michelle Dupuis [mdup...@ocg.ca] *Sent:* Thursday, October 13, 2011 1:28 PM *To:* freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* Re: [Freedos-user] Menu in config.sys not working I just found my answer in the online doc :) so now the tougher questions: 1. Can I have more than 9 options in a menu 2. How does freedos know that I have picked a valid option (how do I tell freedos which numbers in use) 3. Can I have 3 nested menus? (My current MSDOS config.sys has 3 menus, one after the other)... 1) No idea, 0..9 is 10 already, never needed more. 2) FreeDOS remembers the valid options if you have each number in use at least once with a question mark behind it: 0?ECHO HELLO WORLD 0123456789?DEVICE=JEMMEX.EXE I=B000-B7FF X=TEST I=TEST NOEMS FreeDOS 1.0 unfortunately, when installed, had a clean boot menu choice listed but there was no other config.sys line using it, resulting in a choice that didn't work. 3) No nested stuff possible to my knowledge. CHOICE command could help you out a bit more. -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Loading device drivers from autoexec.bat
Hi, On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: Most .sys drivers can be loaded using the DEVLOAD program (version 3.25 recommended), http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/devload/ 1) No idea, 0..9 is 10 already, never needed more. Depends on the kernel, IIRC, as I vaguely remember one of them (2037 ??) not even allowing a 0 choice. But I don't know (and can't imagine) about needing more than 9. Admittedly, the menu syntax is incompatible from MS, and (IIRC) nobody ever integrated the (working?) patch for DR compatibility (which MS should've copied but didn't). Oh well. 2) FreeDOS remembers the valid options if you have each number in use at least once with a question mark behind it: 0?ECHO HELLO WORLD 0123456789?DEVICE=JEMMEX.EXE I=B000-B7FF X=TEST I=TEST NOEMS Or did she mean this (autoexec.bat): if %CONFIG%==3 echo Third option! 3) No nested stuff possible to my knowledge. CHOICE command could help you out a bit more. For completeness, here's what FD Help says: http://home.mnet-online.de/willybilly/fdhelp-internet/en/hhstndrd/cnfigsys/menu.htm Also see CONFIG.TXT in kernel sources: http://freedos.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/freedos/kernel/trunk/docs/config.txt?revision=1696view=markup -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
