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From: exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (exuptr@exu.ericsson.se)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: 2 monitors
Date: 11 Sep 92 21:35:40 GMT
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Inc.

In article <18qvctINN2ln@agate.berkeley.edu> ucbked@athena (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:
>From: ucbked@athena (Earl H. Kinmonth)
>Subject: Re: 2 monitors
>Date: 11 Sep 92 20:26:05 GMT

>In article <exuptr.478.716144921@exu.ericsson.se> exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (exuptr@exu.ericsson.se) writes:
>>In article <3557@ra.nrl.navy.mil> miner@hightop.nrl.navy.mil (Les Miner) writes:
>>
>[ question pertaining to more than 2 hard disks on a PeeCee. ]
>>That's easy.  Use SCSI.

>Or use Xenix.  On AT-bus machines, some versions support multiple
>controllers so you can have at least four disks without SCSI.

Unfortunately, standard "AT" controllers do not support this feature.
Some RLL controllers and ESDI do, I have yet to see an IDE, but there 
probably is one.  Just beware that the software support for this is not 
enough, the controllers (at least one) have to be addressable at alternate
ports and interrupts.
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From: judie@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Longer Path?
Date: 9 Sep 92 10:01:59 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <1685C7CB4.PRAETHE@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu>, PRAETHE@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Ethan Evan Prater) writes:
> I know there is way of tricking DOS into allowing a path of more than 80
> characters (or whatever the limit is)--something like substituting in some
> variables. I would REALLY appreciate it if someone would mail me how to do
> this, or post it if it's not an already overdone question.

The maximum is 127 characters according to my manual. I think there is some
method using variables but I just use the APPEND command with the /X:ON switch,
so that the extra directories are searched, and it works just fine. 

Two lines similar to the following live in my AUTOEXEC.BAT:

PATH all those directory names that will fit into 127 chars
APPEND the rest /X:ON  

-- 
Judie Wert Scheurich
Uni of Waikato, N.Z (that little cluster of islands off Tasmania)
From: ygoland@edison.seas.ucla.edu (The Jester)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Question:Where do I ask my DR DOS VERSION 6 questions?
Date: 5 Sep 92 18:22:43 GMT
Organization: The Hacker Conference

I am having a problem with dr dos v6 running super stor for dr dos,
I keep on getting the error:
Cannot load file
Press a key to retry

On random bootups. Other than having to reboot again, there doesn't
seem to be any damage. Can anyone help me with this? If not, can
someone point me to a group that CAN help me with this problem? Also
someone posted that you can get Dr Dos help at drdos@novell.com, but
since my machine can't find a novell.com address and because (to the
best of my knowledge) Dr Dos is written by Digital Research (thus
dr) and they haven't (have they?) been purchased by novell, that
seems a bit strange. I'd really like to solve this problem, all help
is appretiated.
				The Jester
-- 
 	The Jester-President of the Hacker Conference
"Freedom isn't Free"-The U.S. Army
"Nothing is too wonderful to be true"-Faraday
"If I knew it all, what would I be doing HERE?"-The Jester
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm-pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: jimmy@namao.ucs.ualberta.ca 
Subject: Commodore 386 SX change to 486 POSSIBLE ?
Keywords: 386 --> 486 possible for a Commodore 386 SX
Organization: University of Alberta
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:52:05 GMT

Howdi,
I am the proud owner of a Commodore 386 SX system (2 Meg RAM expandable
to 16). Would you know if I can upgrade this system to a 486 ? Has
anyone actually done this change ?
Thanks,
Jimmy
P.S. Please email

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From: blackmane@pro-haven.cts.com (Ed Blackman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Rumor about MS/DOS ver 6.0
Date: 14 Sep 92 02:12:05 GMT
Organization: ProLine [pro-haven] - Pariahs' Haven BBS, 409/693-8262, 9600-300

In <OA92-901-203_000C5F66@piraya.bad.se>
Jan-Inge_Flucht@f203.n901.z92.badnet.bad.se (Jan-Inge Flucht) writes:

% 
% is going around. Is there anyoune who knows if there are a beta- 
% verson coming up ?? 
% 
From what I've read on the FidoNet OS2 echo, and comp.os.os2.misc, MS DOS
6.0 won't make any significant changes to the DOS.  It will only package
some add-ons like Stacker, etc.

If that's the case, it's hardly worth a whole new version number.  But that
won't stop uSoft.

Ed

ProLine:  blackmane@pro-haven
Internet: blackmane@pro-haven.cts.com
UUCP:     crash!pro-haven!blackmane
From: finsys@cpva.saic.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: qemm/qram
Date: 15 Sep 92 18:30:22 PST
Organization: Science Applications Int'l Corp./San Diego

In article <BuHArD.Dr7@magna.com>, doc@magna.com (Matthew J. D'Errico) writes:
> In article <Art_Beyersdorfer.033g@edtng.uwp.edu> you write:
>>I would like some information about the two programs, qemm and qram.  Both
>>of those programs are from Quarterdeck, and I would appreciate finding out
>>what those programs do, and how well they work.
>>
>>Specifically for myself, I am running a very vanilla 286, 2meg of ram, no
>>LIM or other expanded memory drivers.  I would still like to be able to do
>>some memory management, but because of the age of my processor, I have not
>>found anything that I thought would work, or, if it worked, it used up so
>>much of my 640k, that applications would start to fail.
>>
>>I had always understood that qemm would not work on a 286, but have
>>recently been told that it will.  In any case, is it worth trying either of
>>those programs, and, if so, which one might make more sense for my system? 
>>And, even more specific, what is it they are designed to do, and what do
>>they really do?
>>
>>-- Via DLG Pro v0.992
> 
> QEMM is for i386 and up, and QRAM is for '286 systems...
> 
> QEMM is a full-blown memory management system which replaces HIMEM.SYS
> *and* EMM386 as well as providing ROM overlay capability for access of
> otherwise inaccessible areas of memory...  QEMM does *not* map VPMI,
> although Quarterdeck has a freeware add-on for that function.
> 
> QRAM (promounced "CRAM") is roughly the euqivelent of EMM386 for '286
> systems...  It will not map extended memory by itself, although you can
> use HIMEM.SYS or QEXT.SYS (which comes with QRAM)...  It does a fairly
> good job...  We use it in our LAN environment, because wihout it, there's
> not enough conventional memory to run anything useful...
> 
> -- Doc
Excellent answer Doc, but just in case Art didn't completely catch
what you meant, I'll clarify.
QRAM allows you to load device drivers, TSRs, buffers, etc into high RAM
rather than conventional memory ( the dreaded 640K limit) allowing bigger
programs to run, larger files to be edited/manipulated, etc.
QEXT.SYS, in managing extended memory, allows those DOS programs requiring
more than 1mb RAM like 123 Release 3.1 to run when combined with those 286s
with more than 1 mb RAM.

Any more questions I can answer directly with e-mail.

Lawrence Dee

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: frotz@dri.com (Frotz)
Subject: Re: Help with DR-DOS 5.0 and WIN 3.1
Reply-To: frotz@novell.com
Organization: Desktop Systems Group/Novell, Monterey CA/USA
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 17:58:53 GMT

andrew@ddsw1.mcs.com (Andrew Gilbert) writes:

]Is it possible to use DR-DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1? I keep getting an
]error on installation "Error in MSDOS Extender". This happens when
]switching from the DOS based install screen to the Windows screen.
]If not, what does it take to upgrade to 6.0?

I don't think that we have any DRDOS 5.0 upgrades anymore, but I'd call
800/NETWARE (800/638-9273) to confirm...

To run Windows 3.1 with DRDOS you need DRDOS 6.0 with the April'92
Update.  Note that some people call this 6.01, but this is actually
the second update for this release.  The release dates are:

Original Release:	8/91
December Update:	12/91
April Update:		4/92

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: jnewborn@ecst.csuchico.edu (Gadget)
Subject: Re: 2 monitors
Organization: California State University, Chico
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 01:49:56 GMT

In article <1590@cogsci.ucsd.EDU> hartung@crl.ucsd.edu (Jeff Hartung) writes:
>In article <exuptr.478.716144921@exu.ericsson.se> exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (exuptr@exu.ericsson.se) writes:
>>In article <3557@ra.nrl.navy.mil> miner@hightop.nrl.navy.mil (Les Miner) writes:
>>>Here's another good one, can you run more than 2 hard drives on a 386?
>>
>>That's easy.  Use SCSI.
>
>You don't need to have a SCSI drive/card to have two hard drives.  It is quite
>possible in most cases to daisy chain a second hard drive onto and existing
>IDE drive.  This occasionally doesn't work with pairs of drives from different
>manufacturers, but almost always works with drives from the same manufacturer.
>Furthermore, compatibility between various IDE drives has improved quite a bit
>over the last couple of years.
>


Another option are the 'new' caching comtrollers that can handle 2 floppies
     and 4 hard drives.  I don't know the details, but I've heard they work
     incredibly well.



J
From: PRAETHE@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Ethan Evan Prater)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Longer Path?
Date: 8 Sep 92 12:52:04 GMT
Organization: Yale University

I'm sure this has been discussed a million times before, but I don't often
read this newsgroup, and couldn't find a FAQL.
 
I know there is way of tricking DOS into allowing a path of more than 80
characters (or whatever the limit is)--something like substituting in some
variables. I would REALLY appreciate it if someone would mail me how to do
this, or post it if it's not an already overdone question.
 
Thanks a lot.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: sean@mks.com (Sean Goggin)
Subject: Re: MKS Toolkit
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 23:30:23 GMT

msc@ssigate.ssinc.com (Michael S. Cross) writes:
>>I'd like to hear some opinions about the MKS Toolkit ---  
>
>OK, Here's what I've got to say.  BTW, I have Version 2.3 which is rather
>old (1988).  Someday I'll plop down $225 for an upgrade.  Maybe after I get
>a larger Hard Drive.

Upgrades of the MKS Toolkit are $69 and support contacts for a year $89
( a support contract includes upgrade and 1 800 support )

>>	Are the Unix-like tools good emulations?
>Dang near perfect.  The compress(1) was not 16 bits, but there is a PD tool
>called COMP430D.ZIP (or something a lot like that) that does the trick.

The current version has 16 bit compress

>>		(i.e. is the shell huge?)
>Well, some of the newer DOS versions have done some work to reduce that
>overhead.  I doubt that the MKS toolkit shrunk in subsequent releases.
>In the computer world, I have yet to see a new release that is actually
>smaller that a previous release.

Since 3.1 the shell has a mode to save memory, sh.exe -R 0,
in which it's code segment is reduced to 27k, 
that means the shell is in the 40 k range 
if you have alot of aliases and stuff set.

>>Is there maybe a mailing list for the MKS Toolkit or users?
>>Finally, is MKS on the net or email anywhere?

We do not want to abuse the internet.
Please email us at inquiry@mks.com if you have any questions.

>I don't know of any mailing list.  MKS is on the NET.  I thought I had the
>address around here somewhere.  The manual says uunet!watmath!mks!toolkit
>but I don't know if the link is still active.  I can't seem to find them
>listed in the UUMAPS.  (but what does that prove?  We aren't listed [yet]
>either)

watmath's mail routing is now done by watserv1
but name@mks.com is MX forwarded and should always work.

-- 
Sean.Goggin..sean@mks.com.............Mortice.Kern.Systems.Waterloo.Ontario.Can.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: avlb@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (A V Louis Biggie)
Subject: DOS installation
Reply-To: avlb@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (A V Louis Biggie)
Organization: JHU/Applied Physics Laboratory
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 13:39:38 GMT

Is there a way to install IBM DOS 5.0 on 3.5 inch disks onto a PC clone where 
the 3.5 inch drive is Drive B?  It seems to insist on installing from drive A.
Thank you.
From: dick.zeitlin%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Dick Zeitlin) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Reboot a PC from a ba
Date: 9 Sep 92 11:42:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Advanced Computer Concepts BBS, New Rochelle, NY 914-654-1981
Reply-To: dick.zeitlin%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Dick Zeitlin) 

MS> .I use a program "COLDBOOT.COM".  It's PD so I'm sure it's around via
  > .anon-ftp.  If you can't find it, I'll put it somewhere for you.

Be aware that if you're using any disk caching software you stand a good
chance on trashing things.  You have to be sure that any writes from the
cache have been completed before doing the boot...


 * OLX 2.2 * Dick.Zeitlin%acc1bbs@ssr.com
                                                                                                                               
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: wright@epx.cis.umn.edu (Mark Wright)
Subject: Re: Volume of beep
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 05:03:27 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.032116.18426@kudpc.kyoto-u.ac.jp> f51562@sakura.kudpc.kyoto-u.ac.jp (f51562) writes:
>I am using IBM PS/55 Z which should has (according to manual) volume 
>control button on the keyboard, but it doesn't have. Is there some 
>software way how to set the volume beep.
>  Thanks  Martin
>
>Martin Cekal
>f51562@sakura.kudpc.kyoto-u.ac.jp
>

Yeah, the beep can be real annoying - especially for really beep-happy programs
try the folowing at simtel:

WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL PUBLIC DOMAIN LISTING
 
NOTE: Type B is Binary; Type A is ASCII
 
Directory PD1:<MSDOS.SYSUTL>
 Filename   Type Length   Date    Description
==============================================
FIXBEEP.ARC   B    1777  871015  Change the obnoxious IBM beep

Mark Wright
wright@epx.cis.umn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: f51562@sakura.kudpc.kyoto-u.ac.jp (f51562)
Subject: Volume of beep
Organization: Data Processing Center, Kyoto University, Kyoto Japan.
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 03:21:16 GMT

I am using IBM PS/55 Z which should has (according to manual) volume 
control button on the keyboard, but it doesn't have. Is there some 
software way how to set the volume beep.
  Thanks  Martin

Martin Cekal
f51562@sakura.kudpc.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 missing previous exe ?
Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 17:27:38 GMT

scott@mycro.UUCP (Scott C. Sadow) writes:

>In article <1992Sep8.133619.6621@alw.nih.gov>, postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster) writes:
>>I would like to know what happened to the redir.exe in the current 
>>version DOS 5.0 ? My DOS 5.0 didn't come with a redir.exe.
>> 

>Check you DOS 5.0 distribution disks. There are 2 or 3 REDIR*.* files that
>are converted to REDIR.EXE if needed. Also check you manual about them. I
>believe that they are not loaded and that if you need them, you have to
>get them off the floppies yourself...

Different vendors seem to provide different DOS disks.  I hadn't noticed
these files on mine.
Just as some DOS disks have NET5.CO_ and some don't...

-JTT

PS.  Greetings from just South of the Mason-Dixon line...
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Wednesday, 9 Sep 1992 20:42:54 MST
From: <AUTSW@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Problems with Command.com

Oh please, oh please, can somebody HELP ME!?!?!

About a day ago I started getting some rather strange errors from my

system... Today I finally ran chkdsk and found there were some errors,
so I had chkdsk fix them... Anyway, now I eliminated the "sector not
found" error, but it's now the other error of "Invalid COMMAND, Command
not found, system halted..." I have no idea what it could be... I ran
Norton Disk Doctor and ran a full set of tests on the hard drive, and
found nothing... So then I thought I might have some new type of virus
and it might be somehow corrupting command.com. Well, I ran SCAN 95b,
which is the latest version out to my knowledge, and found nothing.
So then I ran Central Point Anti-Virus, and it found nothing, then
I ran Virus Safe, and still found nothing...


It doesn't always crash, sometimes it will let me boot the system and then
when I exit from a program such as FrontDoor (which I need for my BBS) it
says "Invalid Command, Command not found, system halted" and it specifies
that command.com is invalid or something along those lines... Does
anybody know what the heck I could have done? I honestly can't figure
anything out, and nobody I've talked with can come up with anything
either...

I can boot off of A: fine and then transfer to C: and load and use some
programs, but that's about it, if I get too intense in what I'm doing, that
error pops up and I get a system lockup again...

ANY HELP is extremely appreciated... I've about gotten to the end of my
rope on advice, and I thought this might hopefully be the place to inquire
about this strange problem...
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Tseng colours
From: news@massey.ac.nz (USENET News System)
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 20:18:32 GMT
Organization: DSIR, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Keywords: Tseng colours
Summary: More colours on Tseng video cards!

I've been using OS/2 for about a month now and I think it is fantastic. 
Still, Windows 3.1 is pretty good too - especially with the number of 
colours I can play with - 32K of them.

This is not so much a question as a state of puzzlement...why isn't there 
support for 256 colours or more for Tseng-4000 cards yet???

True, I've seen the Orchid drivers, even tried a couple of them, but the 
colours look a little funny and I'd like to think that Tseng themselves 
might put out a driver set.

P.S. I'm using an Everex Step 33 at work (which I think is Tseng based) and 
a nornal Tseng (clone?) card at home which has the Windows 3.1 32K colour 
drivers (640x480 and 800x600).

Anyone have any comments?
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: int704v@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Mark Cosham)
Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 missing previous exe ?
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 02:12:20 GMT

(Luis Ochoa) writes:

>I would like to know what happened to the redir.exe in the current 
>version DOS 5.0 ? My DOS 5.0 didn't come with a redir.exe.
> 
>I am setting up a package which requires the redir.exe .
>This package was written to run for 3.30 -> 4.0 DOS.

>Can anyone offer a solution for running the redir.exe which the 
>package needs and which my DOS 5.0 doesn't as have.

>Thanks
>ochoa@alw.nih.gov

Redir is not a DOS command, but is part of a network.  Go and have a look
at your network software. 

Mark
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From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 missing previous exe ?
Date: 9 Sep 92 04:06:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: qiclab.1992Sep9.040641.28424
Reply-To: 70465.203@compuserve.com
Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.

(Luis Ochoa) writes:

>I would like to know what happened to the redir.exe in the current 
>version DOS 5.0 ? My DOS 5.0 didn't come with a redir.exe.
> 
>I am setting up a package which requires the redir.exe .
>This package was written to run for 3.30 -> 4.0 DOS.

>Can anyone offer a solution for running the redir.exe which the 
>package needs and which my DOS 5.0 doesn't as have.

DOS 5.0 doesn't have it because there is no "redir.exe" as part of
*any* DOS version that I've ever seen. (2.0, 2.1, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3)

Whatever it is, it is *not* part of DOS. What is the package, and
just what leads you to believe that it needs this program?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: rose@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (K. Rose)
Subject: Sharing a modem on a LAN
Keywords: modem share 
Organization: UTCS Public Access
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 19:29:51 GMT

Have you ever used a modem over a LAN?  Expensive "modem sharing" software
is available.  Is this expense (CAN$400) necessary?   

I am in a medical research lab.  A collegue of mine is setting up a LAN to 
connect the 12 PCs that we have.  We have two 2400 baud modems and may buy
a faster one.  As my collegue understands it, we have to buy some new software 
($400) in order be able to use the modems from any PC on the network.  
We have been using Procomm.  

Our funds are very limited and this is something with which nobody here has 
any experience.

Your comments will be appreciated.

Thanks,
	Dan
	rose@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu
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