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From: Dave_Kirsch@mindlink.bc.ca (Dave Kirsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: Problems right off the bat
Message-ID: <5977@mindlink.bc.ca>
Date: 22 May 91 21:10:55 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> stone@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu writes:
> 
> 1. MANIFEST reports DOS 4.00 although DOS's VER reports 4.01 (it IS 4.01).

This is a problem with DOS 4.01.  When Microsoft fixed DOS and changed the
version number to 4.01, they only changed what COMMAND.COM says when you type
VER.  The DOS internal function that programs use to get the DOS version number
returns it as 4.00.  It's a small oversight of Microsoft.

> 
> 2. BUFFER won't run, saying it needs DOS 2 or 3.

BUFFER doesn't work with DOS 4.01, and it doesn't need to.  With DOS 4.01, you
can tell DOS to put buffers in EMS (freeing up low memory space).  This done by
specifing "BUFFERS=30 /X" in your CONFIG.SYS file.  You'll get a better savings
than with QEMM's BUFFER command anyway.

> 
> 3. OPTIMIZE won't put a LOADHI command for Sidekick in my autoexec.  It
>    made LOADHI commands for my other TSR's but not SK.  I can of course
>    change the autoexec file myself, but why would OPTIMIZE choke on SK?

I'm assuming you are talking about SideKick 1.56b.  SK is a large TSR program
and you probably don't have enough high ram to stick it up there.  You need
like a 96K continous block of high ram to load it.  Besides, since SideKick is
so large a TSR, it would eat up most of your high ram and not leave much for
other programs to load.  Run SideKick in its own DV window (I do).
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