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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nexus.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!torn!sis!grendel.t.sheridanc.on.ca!zander From: zander@grendel.t.sheridanc.on.ca (Mark Zander) Subject: Re: Rundos Message-ID: <DAJA52.F17@eclipse.sheridanc.on.ca> Sender: news@eclipse.sheridanc.on.ca (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: oa-bb19-15.t.sheridanc.on.ca Reply-To: mark.zander@sheridanc.on.ca Organization: Sheridan College X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <3s2gvq$bac@sashimi.wwa.com> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 17:34:13 GMT Lines: 27 Andrew H. Marrinson (ahm@sashimi.wwa.com) wrote: : Has anyone actually gotten rundos working with DOS 6.2? When I try to : boot the install disks I get the Starting MS-DOS message and then it just : sits there. Worse, when I gave up it was as though I was always holding : down the shift key. (Not like caps-lock was on, the numbers and : punctuation were shifted too.) Andrew Try using a disk that has no config.sys or autoexec.bat. The problem I ran into was that things locked up when running any sort of memory manager. Under '/usr/dos' in BSD/OS 2.0 there are a number of files. A sample '.rundosrc' and a program called 'xms.sys' . Xms.sys, I believe is a memory manager that will give you access to 4MB of XMS memory. It is supposed to be a replacement for 'himem.sys' I find 'doscmd' to be a much better program, plus it runs in X. later. ---------------------------------------------------- Mark Zander mark.zander@sheridanc.on.ca Technical Support Sheridan College (905) 845-9430 ext. 2166 1430 Trafalger Rd (905) 815-4011 fax. Oakville, Ont. L6H 2L1 8-) -----------------------------------------------------