Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!batcomputer!caen!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!bronze!copper!rschmidt From: rschmidt@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (roy schmidt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Loadhi Mirror in DOS 5.0? Keywords: DOS5 LOADHI w/MIRROR Message-ID: <1991Jun19.190851.1269@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Date: 19 Jun 91 19:08:51 GMT Article-I.D.: bronze.1991Jun19.190851.1269 References: <6187@ptsfa.PacBell.COM> Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 23 In article <6187@ptsfa.PacBell.COM> jagonch@PacBell.COM (Jim Goncher) writes: >I have been trying to use DOS5.0's LOADHI to put MIRROR in >high memory with no success via my autoexec.bat file. > [details deleted] >Am I missing something? > >Please post responses to the net. Others may have the same >question/problem. > Simply put, MIRROR is *not* a TSR. When you run it, MIRROR copies the FAT, etc., into a hidden file in the very last sector of your disk. Then, if enabled (as you did with the /T switch) MIRROR installs another TSR called the Delete Tracker that keeps a running file of any files that have been deleted. The MIRROR stuff you see in regular memory is the Tracker. So you can't load MIRROR high because it isn't TSR -- it dies once the Tracker is installed. And it would seem that to load the Tracker high would require rewriting MIRROR, with liberal amounts of smoke, to boot! :-) -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roy Schmidt | #include Indiana University | /* They are _my_ thoughts, and you can't Graduate School of Business | have them, so there! */