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Does your Path point in the right direction? If you are like me, you have many used programs spread all over your hard drive, and you are never in the 'current directory' to use them. Point your PATH environment variable to them. (AUTOEXEC.BAT)
PATH = C:\;C:\DOS;C:\DOS\UTILS;
C:\COMPILERS;C:\WINDOZE;C:\MISC\APPS;
No matter what directory I am in, the above will let DOS search all directories specified above for the program I want to run.
How many Buffers do you have? DOS uses buffers to store data that is being read from the disk driver to your program. If you have larger programs, or do a lot of disk reading/writing then increase your buffer space will help you out. (CONFIG.SYS)
BUFFERS = n,m
The n parameter tells DOS use n*(516+16) bytes for the buffer.
The m parameter is optional and tells DOS how many sectors to read/write at a time (1 - 8)
How many FILES are you allowing DOS to have open at one time? (CONFIG.SYS)
FILES=n
The n specifies how many files can be open at one time.
Make DOS load into HIGH memory and maintain a link between upper memory and conventional memory. (CONFIG.SYS)
DOS=HIGH,UMB
Frees some conventional memory
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Do you have long DIR listings in your directories? If so, you can set the dircmd to /p and DIR will automatically pause for each page of the listings. (AUTOEXEC.BAT)
SET DIRCMD=/p
Are you tired of telling QB4.5 where BCOM45.LIB lives? How about where your Include files are for C?
Put the following line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file and tell no more.
SET LINK=C:\COMPLRS\QB45
SET LIB=\COMPLRS\QB45;\COMPLRS\QC25\LIB;
SET INCLUDE=\COMPLRS\QC25\INCLUDE
Please note: You will need to change yours to where ever your compilers reside.
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