Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!acornrc!bob From: bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: DOS 3.3 feature vaporware? Message-ID: <708@acornrc.UUCP> Date: 12 Apr 88 18:30:53 GMT References: Organization: Acorn Research Center, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 23 Summary: Yes, it's vapor In article , dpz@athos.rutgers.edu (David P. Zimmerman) writes: > I was looking through my MS-DOS 3.30 manual and found a nifty feature > called "drivparm" that you can stick in your CONFIG.SYS file. > > However, try as I might (and try as another DOS wizard here might), > all that I can get spit out at boot time is a complaint about > "drivparm" being an unrecognized command. Yes, "drivparm" does not work in DOS 3.3. I corresponded with a MicroSoft rep on CompuServe about this and he said it will probably become available as a free upgrade some time in the future. (In the mean time, they're getting dozens of calls about it!) So you still have to use device=driver.sys ... instead. -- Bob Weissman Internet: bob@acornrc.uucp UUCP: ...!{ ames | decwrl | oliveb | apple }!acornrc!bob Arpanet: bob%acornrc.uucp@ames.arc.nasa.gov