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- From: wcbst4+@pitt.edu (William C Beegle)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.geos,comp.os.msdos.pcgeos,comp.answers,news.answers
- Subject: PC/GEOS FAQ List part 0/2 -- Changes since last revision
- Summary: PC/GEOS is a GUI (Graphical User Interface) developed by
- Geoworks. It runs on top of MS or DR DOS and provides
- a multitasking, multithreaded environment for any DOS
- machine with at least 640k of RAM and a hard disk.
- Message-ID: <16908@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
- Date: 10 Mar 94 22:16:33 GMT
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- Archive-name: pcgeos-faq/part0
- Last-modified: modified March 7, 1994
-
-
- FAQ 1:
-
- Made Contents Searchable:
-
- [CONTENTS] Table of Contents:
-
- Search for: To find out about:
- ----------------------------------------
- [GENERAL] What is GEOS?
- [CONTACT] How do I contact them?
- [3RDPARTY] What else is available?
- [GROUPS] User and Support Groups
- [DOSTECH] "How to" information for using GEOS with DOS
- [GEOSTECH] "How to" information within the GEOS environment
- [NEW] New Questions
-
- [NEW]
- Q: What about the Task Switcher/Multitasker in Novell's NW-DOS 7?
-
- A: The multitasker and GEOS don't work together AT ALL. You can get the
- task switcher to work with GEOS by making sure that it uses <Ctrl><Esc> as
- it's key combination. Select the DR-DOS TaskMax switcher in preferences,
- and it should work.
-
- [NEW]
- Q: I switched from MS-DOS/PC-DOS to DR-DOS and GEOS won't load, even
- after i run SETUP. What am I doing wrong?
-
- A: Make sure that you have FILES=120 or MORE. DR-DOS uses files
- differently and needs more available. This DOES NOT apply to NW-DOS 7.
- NW-DOS is okay with 30.
-
- [NEW]
- Q: I'm running Ensemble with Stacker installed. Drive C is my stacker
- volume. For some reason GeoManager insists on looking at drive E for the
- /geoworks/world directory, even though when I exit geoworks, I'm on drive
- C. Any ideas?
-
- A: Check the volume labels for drives C, D, and E. If they're identical,
- then use GeoManager to edit the volume labels so that each drive has its
- own distinct label. On some computers, you may have to exit to DOS to
- change the drive label (use the LABEL command).
-
- [NEW]
- Q: I'm having problems with MS-DOS 6 or 6.2, or PC-DOS 6.1 and GEOS 2.0.
- Why won't it work?
-
- A: First, make sure that FILES=30 or more, and BUFFERS=30 or more. If
- this doesn't help, try using SETVER.
-
- [NEW]
- Q: I keep getting SHARE or File Lock errors when I run Geos. What's
- going on?
-
- A: Geos needs a lot of files open at once. If you're using SHARE, try
- adding the switch /f:4096 or /f:2048.
-
- [NEW]
- Q: In the GEOS area of Preferences, what is Wait/Post?
-
- A: (From the America Online GeoInfo Database) Wait/post is a small
- optimization that comes into play when you're trying to make your system
- do a couple things at a time, one of which is using the disk a lot. Simply
- put, the BIOS will notify GEOS that it is waiting for something to happen
- (e.g. the disk to read a particular sector), allowing GEOS to switch to
- something else, rather than waiting in BIOS until the thread's time has
- expired and the system goes to look for something more important to do.
- When the hardware notifies BIOS the thing for which it was waiting has
- come to pass, the BIOS posts this notification to GEOS, which then makes
- the waiting thread run again.
-
- This used to be the default behavior in Ensemble 1.2, but it caused
- problems on enough machines (forcing people to pass the /nowaitpost switch
- to the kernel whenever they ran it), that we decided to change it to be
- optional in 2.0, enabled in Preferences.
-
- It is automatically disabled for the session following a crash, to allow
- you to turn it off again in Preferences, should it cause your system to crash.
-
- Article#0328
- Updated 06/26/93
-
-
- -----
- FAQ 2:
- Made contents searchable, updated questions using Geoworks Support Doc
- 1001 - Developer Info.
-
- [DEVCONTENTS] Contents for GEOS Developers FAQ
-
- Search for: To find out about:
- -----------------------------------------
- [DEVINDEX] This index (For the Geos Developers' FAQ)
- [DEVQ] Developer Questions
- [SDK] What's available in the SDK
- [DEVREQ] Developer Hardware & Software Requirements
- [DEVSUPPORT] Developer Training and Support
- [END] End of FAQ
-
-