I'm trying to customize startup files and have a few questions.

---FDCONFIG.SYS---

1) STACKS=9,256. STACKS=0,0 seem a bit risky

2) DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\UMBPCI.SYS

As UMBPCI.SYS is used insted of EMM386.EXE what's the proper setting for DOS 
and DOSDATA. I left both at:

DOS=HIGH,UMB
DOSDATA=UMB

Should this be changed to:

DOS=HIGH
rem DOSDATA=UMB

3) What is this: SET DIRCMD=/OGN

4) DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\FDXXMST.SYS BIOS NUMHANDLES=64

How to figure out the best value for numhandles (my pc: AMD Athlon 64, 512 MB 
RAM)

5) Which Shell command is better:

SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /P=C:\FDAUTO.BAT
SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\FDOS\BIN /E:512 /P=C:\FDAUTO.BAT

---FDAUTO.BAT---

6) I had to rem out this one, it returns some memory error:

rem LH KEYB US,,%DOSDIR%\BIN\KEYBOARD.SYS

What's the proper keyboard driver for US-Eng keyboard? My keyboard works almost 
ok without any FDos driver loaded except that right ALT key doesn't work. 
Ideally I would like to get it working as well.

Thanks

Lester


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Here is the complete copy of both startup files:

---FDCONFIG.SYS---

FILES=50
BREAK=ON
STACKS=9,256

SET DOSDIR=C:\FDOS
LASTDRIVE=Z
BUFFERS=20,0
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DOSDATA=UMB
SET DIRCMD=/OGN

DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\FDXXMST.SYS BIOS NUMHANDLES=64
DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\UMBPCI.SYS

DEVICEHIGH=C:\FDOS\BIN\QCDROM.SYS /D:CDROM1
DEVICEHIGH=C:\FDOS\BIN\CDRCACHE.SYS CDROM1 CDRCACH$ 12
INSTALLHIGH=C:\FDOS\BIN\LBACACHE.COM BUF 12 DRV C

DEVICEHIGH=C:\FDOS\BIN\NANSI.SYS /S
SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /P=C:\FDAUTO.BAT

---FDAUTO.BAT---

@ECHO OFF
PROMPT $P$G
SET PATH=%DOSDIR%\BIN
SET HELPPATH=%DOSDIR%\HELP
SET NLSDIR=%DOSDIR%\NLS
SET TEMP=%DOSDIR%\TEMP
SET TMP=%DOSDIR%\TEMP
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330
SHCDX33A /D:?CDROM1 /C /V /~+ /Q+
LH DISPLAY CON=(EGA,,1)
rem LH KEYB US,,%DOSDIR%\BIN\KEYBOARD.SYS
LH %DOSDIR%\BIN\CTMOUSE.EXE /3 /V
ECHO CuteMouse Driver Loaded


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