Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 93 19:31:14 EST
From:         "Gerald W. Schlabach" <GSCHLABA@IRISHVMA.BITNET>
Subject:      DR DOS set up
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene

Having received a few requests for a DR DOS setup that gives 625K of
conventional memory on a 486sx machine with 2 megs of memory, I am now posting
a version of my CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT file.  Special thanks, again to
Ted Parkinson, whose files I modified for myself.

Look for "inter-linear" REM notes commenting and clarifying a few things.
A special note:  I couldn't figure out how Ted had gotten his 625K until I
noticed that I still had a disk cache program in my autoexec.bat that Windows
had put there (SMARTDRV.EXE).  DR DOS gives you its own cache, Super PC Kwick,
so stay with one or the other.  If some other reader wants to tell us why
one is better than the other, that is welcome.  The memory usage seems
equivalent, and I can't tell a difference in hard disk access time.  But
having run an XT until this week, everything still seems fast!

Gerald Schlabach
schlabach.1@nd.edu

CONFIG.SYS: ------------------------------------------------------------

DEVICE=C:\DRDOS\EMM386.SYS /f=auto /k=auto /b=ffff  /r=auto
SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /P /E:512
hidevice=c:\drdos\vdisk.sys 312 /e
HIDEVICE=C:\DRDOS\ANSI.SYS
HIDEVICE=C:\MOUSE\MOUSE.SYS
BREAK=ON
HIBUFFERS=8
FILES=30
FCBS=2,2
LASTDRIVE=U
HISTORY=ON
FASTOPEN=250
HIDOS=ON
STACKS=9,256
------------------------------------------------------------------------

AUTOEXEC.BAT: ----------------------------------------------------------

@ECHO OFF
REM You may prefer a different prompt, of course!
PROMPT $D $T$H$H$H$_$P$G
REM The DRDOSBEG and DRDOSEND labels tell the SETUP program which
REM statements it should process. Put any additional statements for
REM DR DOS between these two labels. Any other statements e.g. for
REM other operating systems should be placed outside the labels.
:DRDOSBEG
REM You will certainly want to modify this path:
PATH C:\;C:\NB;C:\DRDOS;C:\UTILS;C:\WINDOWS;C:\KERMIT;C:\PRO;C:\NBACKUP
VERIFY OFF
SET TEMP=C:\TEMP
SET DRDOSCFG=C:\
share.exe /L:20 /mu
DISKMAP C:
REM Ted Parkinson has a plus not a minus in the MEMMAX line that follows.
REM I could not get TASKMAX to load until I changed this.  Experiment.
MEMMAX -u >nul
superpck /A+ /S:384
REM the parameter /S:256 or 384 after above line gives some extended memory
REM extra for dictionary etc.
REM The /L parameter that follows may or may not make a difference.
Hiload taskmax /l:640
delwatch c:
mode con: rate=28 delay=1
:DRDOSEND
:ask
cls
REM I have cute lines around the next ECHO sections, but removed them
REM for sending over Bitnet!
ECHO press one:
ECHO 1)  Windows
ECHO 2)  Nota Bene
ECHO 3)  dos prompt
switch win, nb, end
:nb
cls
REM See additional file below.  This is to install the set of programs that
REM I regularly switch back and forth from.
nbset
REM  You may have installed a different hot key.  Re-write previous line.
goto ask
:win
WIN
goto ask
:end
cls
ECHO from now on, type:
ECHO WIN   for Windows
ECHO NBSET for Nota Bene plus
ECHO NB    for Nota Bene only
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Included as a sample:

NBSET.BAT: -------------------------------------------------------------

@echo off
cls
c:
chdir \
echo Loading Nota Bene...
taskmax /c c:\nb\nb
echo Loading Kermit...
taskmax /c c:\kermit\kermit
echo Loading concordance...
taskmax /c c:\bible.kjv\kjv
cls
echo To begin, use task
echo switching hot-key:
echo     Shift-Esc
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