Hello Andy - At 04:10 PM 11/4/02 -0500, you wrote:
> I am having trouble running the DOS app; Arachne(arachne.cz) > > normally it would run with my 8MB RAM if I rem'ed out everything in my >autoexec.bat and devicehigh'ed everything in my config.sys > > however, now I want to run it(the latest version) on/from a zip disk >which means I *Must* be able to load my zip drive driver... so I added >more RAM to my old machine: [...] As you have discovered adding memory can't increase the low memory available. It's locked in at 1 meg max. :-) [...] >my autoexec.bat: > >set SOUND16=C:\utilitie\DIAMOND\ >SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T4 >C:\utilitie\DIAMOND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:DMSCD01 /M:12 Here you could try shsucdx.exe, a very small universal CD driver. It may work for you? >C:\utilitie\DIAMOND\SNDINIT.EXE /b >C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE Not sure smartdrv automatically loads high? You could try "LH smartdrv.exe" and find out? You should also use: C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE 2048 16 /Q C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE A- B- K- /C /Q The first buffer size is for DOS, second for Windows. Smartdrv defaults to 16k but I put it in there just to be safe. The next line tells smartdrv NOT to cache drives a,b,and k (k = CD drive here). >@ECHO Off >:lh novafont.com >PATH C:\DRDOS;C:\NWCLIENT;C:\WINDOWS;C:\DOS;C:\internet\TWSK20;C:\utilitie\D >IAMOND;C:\EMM386;C:\ You don't need emm386 in your path statement (noramlly) but it won't hurt anything I suppose? >PROMPT $p$g >VERIFY OFF >SET TEMP=C:\DOS >IF NOT DIREXIST %TEMP% MD %TEMP% >SET DRDOSCFG=C:\DRDOS >c:\utilitie\MOUSE\mouse Here you could try Cute-Mouse (ctmouse.exe) from the FreeDOS utilities. Much smaller mouse driver. >C:\DOS\SHARE /L:500 /f:5100 Share isn't required AFAIK to use Arachne. Usually only needed for IExplorer. >NWCACHE 3396 1024 /LEND=ON /DELAY=OFF You're loading a SECOND cache program on top of smartdrv. This is a no-no and shouldn't be done. Smartdrv (newer v4.x) is quite good and doesn't need the interference. >TZ=EST7EDT > >C:\ZIPTOOLS\GUEST.EXE Will this "LH" for you possibly? >rem c:\windows\win > >md c:\temp >set temp=c:\temp >rem set path=%path%;c:\arachne >rem arachne > >------ >should EMM386 be moved closer to the beginning of my PATH statement?? >should I make sure a DIR exists that is named and contains EMM386?? >------ Nope, you can remove that. >my config.sys: > >DEVICEHIGH=C:\DRDOS\EMM386.EXE DPMI=OFF FRAME=NONE DPMI should not be 'off'. This look totally wrong but I don't use DrDOS here either. :-\ >DEVIVEHIGH=C:\DRDOS\DPMS.EXE >DEVICEHIGH=C:\DRDOS\SETVER.EXE >SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /E:512 /P Your environment for variables is too small, use COMMAND.COM /P /E:1152 >BREAK=OFF >REM DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS >REM DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS >REM DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS i=E000-EFFF >DEVICEHIGH=C:\DRDOS\ANSI.SYS >DOS=HIGH,UMB >FILES=40 > >BUFFERS=40 >FCBS=4,4 I use: BUFFERS=53 FILES=80 FCBS 5,5 >DEVICEHIGH=C:\utilitie\DIAMOND\CDSETUP.SYS /T:I /P:170 /I:15 >DEVICEHIGH=C:\utilitie\DIAMOND\TOSHIBA.SYS /D:DMSCD01 Try shsucdx.exe here. >LASTDRIVE=Z >HISTORY=ON,512,ON >COUNTRY=1,,C:\DRDOS\COUNTRY.SYS 'Country' is only required if you want a keyboard other than English? >STACKS=9,256 > > >please help! I tried. :-\ With 32 meg you could also use TDSK to setup a ramdrive for %temp% that Arachne can use for temporary files. It would speed Arachne up a bit. TDSK uses only 500 bytes of low memory. Charles Angelich The Ghost in the Machine! DOS and W31 Tech website: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/ Stories, poems, MP3/MIDI music, and photos website: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/faf/ To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
