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- New Additions:
-
- 1) The FILES, BUFFERS, LASTDRIV, DEVICE and ALLOAD programs have
- been updated to work with DOS 4.0 (all versions) and DOS 5.0.
- However, DOS 4.0 users should not use the DOS /X option with
- ANSI.SYS, the DOS Buffers, Fastopen or VDISK.SYS. The /X option
- does not work correctly and will cause problems.
-
-
- 2) There are two new options for the DEVICE and ALLOAD programs
- which are not documented in the manual.
-
- Some device drivers and memory resident programs implode
- after loading. In other words, they require more memory
- to load than is actually used after they become resident.
- Also some programs check to see that there is a minimum
- amount of free memory above them before loading
- (eg. FASTOPEN.EXE).
-
- To accommodate this need a new option has been added to the
- DEVICE and ALLOAD programs. The new option only applies to
- users who have set an EMS pageframe.
-
- The new option temporarily allocates the 64K EMS pageframe
- to provide more loading space for the given application,
- and then resets the EMS pageframe back. This option will
- only work when loading a device driver or TSR into a high
- memory block if the EMS pageframe immediately follows the
- block (ie. the pageframe must be contiguous with the high
- memory block the application is loading into).
-
- Although the pageframe area is temporarily allocated, an
- application which is being loaded into high memory and which
- also uses EMS, will not be affected; it will find the EMS
- pageframe (eg. SMARTDRV.SYS).
-
- If, after loading, an application has encroached upon
- (ie. used) the temporary pageframe area for itself the
- following error message is generated:
-
- "Abnormal Termination. Please reboot the system."
-
- The new option is /TF (not case sensitive).
-
- Syntax: DEVICE /TF =(device to be loaded)
-
- Syntax: ALLOAD /TF (file to be loaded)
-
- Examples: DEVICE /TF =SMARTDRV.SYS 1024/A
-
- ALLOAD /TF FASTOPEN C:=100
-
-
- The second new option available with the DEVICE and ALLOAD
- programs reports statistical information about the item
- being loaded.
-
- This information includes the original size of the item, its
- execution RAM requirements and its final resident size. This
- information will help you optimize your system. The new option
- is /TS (not case sensitive) and can be used as follows:
-
- Syntax: DEVICE /TS =(device to be loaded)
-
- Syntax: ALLOAD /TS (file to be loaded)
-
- Examples: DEVICE /TS =SMARTDRV.SYS 1024/A
-
- ALLOAD /TS FASTOPEN C:=100
-
- In order to get a hard copy of the loading statistics you can
- pipe the information to a file as follows:
-
- Examples: DEVICE /TS =SMARTDRV.SYS 1024/A >filename.1
-
- ALLOAD /TS FASTOPEN C:=100 >filesname.2
-
-
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