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Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
Sure. 'I' know how to handle this.
I was just making the point that I think the fact that there isn't a method for this to 'just happen' is something that keeps DOS from being an option to a lot of people. Perhaps apples and oranges but I think that's one reason linux is picking up steam... it keeps making things that used to take a command line and some elbow grease either 'just happen' or more friendly to the non techie by the use of a gui. For instance, many distros now mount devices automatically.
Glenn Gilbreath Jr. wrote:
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Jason, and others...
The suggestion to use QEMM and memory management is one method. The other is for those of us that still use MS DOS
version 6 or later...run Memmaker and get more conventional
memory in the first 640 kb available. Also, only load those
device drivers you really need, and if you have MS DOS 7 or
later use "devicehigh" rather than "device" commands to
load drivers via CONFIG.SYS and AUTHOEXEC.BAT.
C U L8R!
Wiz <{;-)
At 06/06/06 5:44:00 AM, you wrote:
Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
I am far from a dos expert even though I've used it enough.
But I got to thinking about our discussion here a while back about whether dos is the best OS. In my mind the best OS is the one You like so I'm not debating that point.
Anyway, one of the things I think makes dos a little less user friendly is the whole memory thing. You know, running out of memory when you have 32mb and your program only needs 640k. The less than techie person scratches his head at that one. In fact, I've seen enough posts here on the subject. My question/comment: is there something out there that can 'take care of' this for the memory dummies in the world who like dos but can't figure out or don't want to spend the time to figure out how to get around this issue?
Jason
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