Hello Andy -

At 04:10 PM 11/4/02 -0500, you wrote:

> I am having trouble running the DOS app; Arachne(arachne.cz)
[...]
>
>my config.sys:
>
>DEVICEHIGH=C:\DRDOS\EMM386.EXE DPMI=OFF FRAME=NONE
>DEVIVEHIGH=C:\DRDOS\DPMS.EXE
>DEVICEHIGH=C:\DRDOS\SETVER.EXE

"DEVICEHIGH" will not work this way.  To load 'high'
the EMM386.EXE has to be loaded.  You're trying to
load 'high' with no high memory.  EMM386 may not even
be loading with this configuration?

>SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /E:512 /P
>BREAK=OFF
[...]
>DEVICEHIGH=C:\DRDOS\ANSI.SYS

You don't really need ANSI.SYS for Arachne, do you?

>DOS=HIGH,UMB

"DOS=HIGH,UMB" should be the third line of config.sys
for DrDOS.

>FILES=40
>
>BUFFERS=40
>FCBS=4,4
>DEVICEHIGH=C:\utilitie\DIAMOND\CDSETUP.SYS /T:I /P:170 /I:15
>DEVICEHIGH=C:\utilitie\DIAMOND\TOSHIBA.SYS /D:DMSCD01
>LASTDRIVE=Z

"LASTDRIVE" uses memory.  To squeeze the a few more bytes
reduce this to actual drive letters used plus 2 max.

>HISTORY=ON,512,ON
>COUNTRY=1,,C:\DRDOS\COUNTRY.SYS

I don't think "COUNTRY.SYS" is needed.  Try without it.

>STACKS=9,256


Here is one example of a DrDOS config.sys for Arachne
using a ramdrive to speed Arachne up a bit.

RamDisk in DR-DOS (config.sys)
DEVICE=C:\DRDOS\EMM386.EXE DPMI=OFF FRAME=NONE
DEVICE=C:\DRDOS\DPMS.EXE
DOS=HIGH,UMB
SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /E:512 /P
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DRDOS\SETVER.EXE
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DRDOS\VDISK.SYS 2000 512 512 /E
LASTDRIVE=F                     !   !   !   !
BUFFERS=20                      !   !   !   + use extended
FILES=20                        !   !   !     memory
.                               !   !   + max number of files
.                               !   !     in root dir of VDISK
.                               !   + sectorsize in byte
.

An example autoexec.bat using NWCACHE (dump smartdrv for now):

In DR-DOS your autoexec.bat with cache may look like:
------------------------------
PROMPT $n$g$p
KEYB GR-
VERIFY OFF
SET DRDOSCFG=C:\DRDOS
LH c:\dos\dosutil\ctmouse/2
NWCACHE 250 50 /LEND=ON /DELAY=OFF
.        !  !
.        !  + minimum cache size in Kb
.        + maximum cache size in kb


Note that 'ctmouse' (Cute-Mouse) can be loaded
high?

Considering the memory you have installed I would
put the cache size up to 3 meg myself.  Your choice.

The ramdrive could be larger on your system.  If not,
you must press the F8 key frequently while using
arachne or it locks up when it runs out of %temp%
space for interim internet files.





Charles Angelich

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