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From: u9048979@cc.uow.edu.au (glen eastment)
Subject: Re: Reboot a PC from a ba
Organization: University Of Wollongong
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 04:23:13 GMT

dick.zeitlin%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Dick Zeitlin)  writes:

>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
>                                                                                                                               

I have the debug (pseudo assembler :-) sources for warmboot.com and 
coldboot.com. They reset anything from an 8088 to a 80486. If anyone wants 
them, I'll post them here. 

To the qestion above, just add a line in a batch file to dump the cache
to disk before rebooting. This works with most cache programs.


Cheers!

<GE> a.k.a. u9048979@wampyr.cc.uow.edu.au

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: dspascha@eos.ncsu.edu (DAVID SCOTT PASCHAL)
Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 missing previous exe ?
Originator: dspascha@c00017-118dan.eos.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: dspascha@eos.ncsu.edu (DAVID SCOTT PASCHAL)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:53:17 GMT


In article <1992Sep9.040641.28424@qiclab.scn.rain.com>, leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) writes:
|> (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.

|> 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?

Hi.  There IS a REDIR.EXE in DOS 4.0 (at least PC-DOS 4.0).  There are also
two other programs that seem to relate to networking: IFSFUNC.EXE and
FILESYS.EXE.  There also seems to be an undocumented CONFIG.SYS command
IFS (possibly relating to IFSFUNC and Installable File Systems), but I don't
know exactly what all this is for.  Any ideas anyone?

Tschuess,
David Paschal
From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Sharing a modem on a LAN
Keywords: modem share
Date: 9 Sep 92 04:25:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: qiclab.1992Sep9.042527.28813
Reply-To: 70465.203@compuserve.com
Distribution: na
Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.

rose@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (K. Rose) writes:

>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.

You'll likely need some hardware too. The problem is that *all* non-network
communications software talks directly to the serial port *hardware*. Which
means that the modem *has* to be attached to the computer that the program
is running on. 

With programs like Procomm Plus Network version, the program talks to
a driver program on your machine that talks to the modem via the LAN.

Your choice is to have a modem on every machine where communications software
is being run, or buying the software (and possibly hardware) to allow remotely
accessing the modems on one machine (note that this machine will likely be
unusable for anything else, the modem shgaring software will need full control)

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: doc@magna.com (Matthew J. D'Errico)
Subject: Re: qemm/qram
Organization: Magna Software Corporation
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 18:45:12 GMT

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
From: scott@mycro.UUCP (Scott C. Sadow)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 missing previous exe ?
Date: 10 Sep 92 14:17:59 GMT

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.
> 
>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
> 


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...


   Scott C. Sadow
   scott@mycro.UUCP
   ...gatech!nanovx!mycro!scott
From: dick.zeitlin%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Dick Zeitlin) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: "Process Accounting" for
Date: 11 Sep 92 11:01:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Advanced Computer Concepts BBS, New Rochelle, NY 914-654-1981
Reply-To: dick.zeitlin%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Dick Zeitlin) 

CH> .I am looking for something that provides similar functionality to the *nix
  > .process accounting which would provide me with a list of programs that had
  > .been executed, start/stop times, (optionally) keystroke count, etc.

CH> .Does such a thing exist?

If you can use 4Dos instead of COMMAND.COM then it constructs a log
which will allow you to extract the time spent in each program.

        D/

 * OLX 2.2 * Real Pilots enjoy NDB approaches to minimums!
                                           
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: jkokko@lesti.hut.fi (Jari Kokko)
Subject: Re: DOS installation
Summary: assign or subst
Reply-To: jkokko@lesti.hut.fi (Jari Kokko)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 15:52:24 GMT

Whenever some software wants something to be done from a particular
drive or path (in this case DOS wants to install from drive a:)
it is worthwhile to try assigning or substing in a way to fool it.

In your case try "assign a=b" or "subst a: b:\"

Disclaimer: as I'm not a walking dictionary, the syntax might be
incorrect. However the principle is correct. (Try assign /? - Oh I am
sorry you don't have DOS 5 yet ;)
-- 
/jkokko // Email: Jari.Kokko@hut.fi
From: ok@csd.cri.dk (Ole Kristensen CAEE user)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Floppy blues and 8088s...
Date: 10 Sep 92 09:15:05 GMT
Organization: Computer Resources International A/S

Hi there !

I had a similar problem with my 386/16 vintage 87.

I tried to install a 3.5" drive which was not supported in 
the CMOS setup (the BIOS). I spent a lot of effort trying to
                                   -----
cheat DOS into believing that a 3.5" drive was ok, but I never
succeeded. I managed to make it write and read a 768 Kbyte floppy
but never a 1.44 Mbyte and I never managed to make it format any floppy.

Recently my motherboard died and I bought a new
one which supported the drive. I'll probably live forever
happy unless a 1,5" floppy is introduced.

By the way, in Denmark a 286/25 motherboard costs less than 
$80, so why not get a new motherboard ?

Best regards,


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From: Rick.Schryvers@psycho.fidonet.org (Rick Schryvers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Missing character questi
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 92 22:20:02 EDT
Organization: Psycho: The Usenet<->Fidonet Gateway of St. Pete Florida

To: rcbaker@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Bob Baker) 
 On 09-07-92 Bob Baker wrote to All... 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 BB> While working on converting some VERY old DOS files at work, we've 
 BB> discovered an interesting dilemma.  When we do a directory listing of 
 BB> the files, we see things like: 
 BB> 
 BB> H FRAME   TXT   09-01-84  etc., etc. 
 BB> S H HOUS  TXT   09-01-84 
 BB> . 
 BB> . 
 BB> . 
 BB> 
 BB> Our problem comes when we want to copy these files to other disks. 
 BB> Whatever character the blank space is in the directory listing, it 
 BB> does not get read in the copy program.  We see: 
 BB> 
 BB> HFRAME.TXT - File not found 
 BB> 0 files copied 
 BB> 
 BB> For whatever reason, DOS removes the character that appears in the 
 BB> directory, and we are unable to copy our files (let alone read them, 
 BB> delete them, rename them, etc.). 
 BB> 
 BB> Has anyone seen this problem before?  Better yet, does any one have a 
 BB> solution as to how to fix it? 
 BB> 
 BB> Thanks for your time, 
 BB> Bob 
 BB> -- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel)
Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 missing previous exe ?
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY, 12866
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 16:41:24 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.133619.6621@alw.nih.gov> (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.
                                                 ^^^^^^^^^

Are you sure you weren't using some other shell.  redir.exe is not in
my \dos (5.0) directory.  My dos 3.3 manual doesn't have a redir
command either.


-- 
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Math & CS Dept.		| Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 | (518)584-5000 Ext 2391
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"I support youth all over the world."
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: evans1@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (Dan Evans)
Subject: Re: .Z files ---->what are they, what do I do with them?
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 22:40:12 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.161628.14830@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> chena@crs.cl.msu.edu (Antony Chen) writes:
>
>The 'Z' is the compression from Unix.  Type:  'uncompress youngones.Z'
>That'll get rid of the 'Z' and you can download it then to your PC.  The thing
>is that if they compressed it using Unix, they might be telling you that it's
>a Unix file.  Hope this helps...

What about the files on SIMTEL20 (and elsewhere) that have a .tar.Z extension?
Is there additional processing besides the decompression?
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From: ucbked@athena (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: 2 monitors
Date: 11 Sep 92 20:26:05 GMT
Organization: Centre for Japanese Studies, Univ. of Sheffield
NNTP-Posting-Host: athena.berkeley.edu

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.
-- 
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sheffield, england s10 2tn  jp1ek@sunc.sheffield.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: kistler@iowave.physics.uiowa.edu
Subject: Re: more than 2 drives (was Re: 2 monitors)
Organization: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 22:26:23 GMT

In article <18qvctINN2ln@agate.berkeley.edu>,
 ucbked@athena (Earl H. Kinmonth) 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:
>>
> [ 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.

The operating system is irrelevant.  Any operating system for the PC has
ways of dealing with more than two physical HD's.  If the hardware you've
got doesn't support them, NO OS will let you use more than two drives.

The trick (as Ralf Brown said in an earlier note) is to use controllers that
will let you reassign their control port addresses (usually by jumpers)
and/or use controllers that can, of and by themselves, control more than
two drives each (SCSI included but not exclusive).

Since this is more of a "caveat emptor" issue rather than a *.programmer issue,
I suppose helpful folks could send specific brand names and models of boards
to the original poster (if they haven't already).

Allen Kistler
kistler@iowave.physics.uiowa.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: sunderma@cs.scarolina.edu (Jack Sunderman)
Subject: Re: .Z files ---->what are they, what do I do with them?
Organization: USC  Department of Computer Science
Distribution: usa
Date: 11 Sep 92 16:36:14 GMT

evans1@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (Dan Evans) writes:

>In article <1992Sep10.161628.14830@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> chena@crs.cl.msu.edu (Antony Chen) writes:
>>
>>The 'Z' is the compression from Unix.  Type:  'uncompress youngones.Z'
>>That'll get rid of the 'Z' and you can download it then to your PC.  The thing
>>is that if they compressed it using Unix, they might be telling you that it's
>>a Unix file.  Hope this helps...

>What about the files on SIMTEL20 (and elsewhere) that have a .tar.Z extension?
>Is there additional processing besides the decompression?
>-- 

Anthony,

	Now it sounds like you are really dealing with some unix software. As
mentioned before the .Z is for the uncompress command. the .tar is
created by using the tar command in unix. You should be able to do a man
tar command to get the full explaination of tar. But the easiest way to
un-tar the file is with the following command: tar -vfox filename.tar
This should extract all the files from the .tar file and create the
proper subdir too. Hope this helps too....

Jack
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: ahoekstr@cs.utwente.nl (Andre Hoekstra)
Subject: a20 handler #14??
Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science, Netherlands
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 12:33:53 GMT


Goodday to y'all!

I have the following problem with DOS 5.0 HIMEM.SYS:

When I boot my AT-clone the following message appears:

HIMEM: DOS XMS Driver, Version 2.77 - 02/27/91
XMS Specification Version 2.0
Copyright 1988-1991 Microsoft Corp.

Installed A20 handler number 14.   <========  ????????
64K High Memory Area is available.


after that I find
	HMA not available : Loading DOS low
on the screen.

MEM/C tells me:
	High Memory Area in use
instead of the usual
	MS-DOS Resident in High Memory Area

Is there anyone out there who knows why handler #14 is installed
instead of #1? Why is HMA in use while it wasn't available during
boot-up?

(Relevant lines in config.sys:
  DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
  DOS=HIGH,UMB
)

Please respond by E-mail.

advaTHANKSnce
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: avlb@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (A V Louis Biggie)
Subject: Re: DOS installation
Reply-To: avlb@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (A V Louis Biggie)
Organization: JHU/Applied Physics Laboratory
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 18:35:04 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.155224.1996@nntp.hut.fi>, jkokko@lesti.hut.fi (Jari 
Kokko) writes:

> Whenever some software wants something to be done from a particular
> drive or path (in this case DOS wants to install from drive a:)
> it is worthwhile to try assigning or substing in a way to fool it.
> 
> In your case try "assign a=b" or "subst a: b:\"

I have already tried assign - unfortunately it does not work.  Is IBM prevent 
people who do not want their hardware from using their software?

Louis
From: hjh@goose.dsto.gov.au (Howard Harvey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Rumor about MS/DOS ver 6.0
Date: 15 Sep 92 16:44:27 GMT

blackmane@pro-haven.cts.com (Ed Blackman) writes:

>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

How else can uSoft hope to stem the rising tide of DRDOS 6.0?

Australian Personal Computer says "... MS-DOS 6.0 will instead only include 
anti-virus software, a backup program, a disk defragmentor, memory management 
enhancements, an enhanced undelete facility and disk compression."  
Seems I read all this in my current OS manual!

Howie

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From: Art_Beyersdorfer@edtng.uwp.edu (Art Beyersdorfer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 missing previous exe ?
Distribution: world
Date: 11 Sep 92 14:04:03 CST
Organization: Electric Dreams: The Next Generation BBS

My version of msdos 3.3 does not have a redir command.  Perhaps you
actually had a shareware/pd command, and didn't know it?


-- Via DLG Pro v0.992
From: chena@crs.cl.msu.edu (Antony Chen)
Subject: Re: .Z files ---->what are they, what do I do with them?
Organization: Michigan State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 05:04:34 GMT

evans1@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (Dan Evans) writes:

[my first reply junk deleted]

>What about the files on SIMTEL20 (and elsewhere) that have a .tar.Z extension?
>Is there additional processing besides the decompression?

The .tar.Z extension is the Unix method of pkzip/unzip.  To uncompress this
file AND untar it, type:  zcat <filename>.tar.Z | tar xvf -  
I suggest making it a background process.  I haven't hit a system that
doesn't have the zcat command, but if not, do this:
     uncompress <filename>.tar.Z
     tar xvf <filename>.tar

That should do it...

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