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| 792.1 | It's possible. Mine's like that now. | ROMEOS::HARRIS_MA | Sales Executive II | Wed Jan 18 1995 17:17 | 5 |
| 792.2 | Try this | HLFS00::KLEIN_P | To Bean or Not to Bean | Thu Jan 19 1995 16:12 | 25 |
| 792.3 | | HLFS00::KLEIN_P | To Bean or Not to Bean | Thu Jan 19 1995 16:14 | 4 |
| 792.4 | Thanks, | CSC32::R_IVERS | | Fri Jan 20 1995 10:43 | 4 |
| 792.5 | Should I Go For It (or not) ?? | AKOCOA::DFARRELL | Dennis Farrell -- AKO2-3/F1 | Mon Apr 17 1995 08:59 | 24 |
| 792.6 | disk prices weaken the pro-side | PFSVAX::JMUSSER | | Mon Apr 17 1995 09:22 | 17 |
| 792.7 | | LANDO::EIBEN | | Mon Apr 17 1995 13:46 | 19 |
| 792.8 | Bottom line - low memory | DECWET::RWALKER | Roger Walker - NetWorker Media Changers | Mon Apr 17 1995 16:03 | 10 |
| 792.9 | hedging | PFSVAX::JMUSSER | | Mon Apr 17 1995 17:17 | 7 |
| 792.10 | Choices | AKOCOA::DFARRELL | Dennis Farrell -- AKO2-3/F1 | Tue Apr 18 1995 10:53 | 20 |
| 792.11 | DRVSPACE works for me. | SFC01::GREENE | Don't confuse me with the facts! | Wed Apr 19 1995 18:50 | 12 |
| 792.12 | Maximum size for a compressed drive? | SMURF::TOMG | | Thu May 09 1996 13:30 | 13 |
| 792.13 | | BRITE::FYFE | Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without. | Thu May 09 1996 13:42 | 5 |
| 792.14 | How do you disable DRVSPACE? | VMSSG::FRIEDRICHS | Ask me about Young Eagles | Tue Mar 18 1997 09:02 | 16 |
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re .8 - DRVSPACE takes up lots of your 640K memory...
I have been trying to get a game that runs in conventional memory to
work and I found that DRVSPACE was getting loaded. I had previously
used DRVSPACE on my disk, but I no longer am. However, DRVSPACE
still gets loaded!
How do I correctly turn it off? (I was able to disable it by
renaming DRVSPACE.BIN) I could not find anything in the Options
menu. Now that DRVSPACE is not getting loaded, I supposed I could
delete DRVSPACE.INI if that is the right thing to do...
Thanks,
jeff
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| 792.15 | To disable DRVSPACE to run a game | TUXEDO::STRUTT | Colin Strutt | Wed Mar 19 1997 14:29 | 19 |
| .14> I have been trying to get a game that runs in conventional memory to
.14> work and I found that DRVSPACE was getting loaded. I had previously
.14> used DRVSPACE on my disk, but I no longer am. However, DRVSPACE
.14> still gets loaded!
I had the same problem. I solved it the following way.
1/ Copy whatever you need from the compressed drive to the uncompressed
drive.
2/ Create a boot floppy, from which you remove DRVSPACE files
3/ Boot from the floppy, and run the game.
You'll need to experiment to discover what files need to be on the
uncompressed drive, and what files also need to be on the floppy. But I
did get it to work (and my sons thanked me :-}).
colin
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| 792.16 | | VMSSG::FRIEDRICHS | Ask me about Young Eagles | Wed Mar 19 1997 14:51 | 12 |
| Thanks.
As I mentioned, I no longer run any compressed drives. However, it
seems that if DOS finds DRVSPACE.BIN in the root directory, then it
will load it automagically (there are no commands in CONFIG.SYS or
AUTOEXEC.BAT to turn it on). Renaming/deleting DRVSPACE.BIN from the
root directory certainly prevents this from happening, but I was
wondering if there is a more graceful way of disabling it completely.
Thanks,
jeff
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| 792.17 | | CFSCTC::SMITH | Tom Smith MRO1-3/D12 dtn 297-4751 | Wed Mar 19 1997 22:29 | 8 |
| Renaming DBLSPACE.BIN was the only way I could get rid of DBLSPACE, so
I wouldn't be surprised if DRVSPACE is the same. It's loaded before you
even get to CONFIG.SYS because that can be on the compressed drive.
Once you've installed it, your only alternative might be to re-install
DOS, and I'm not sure that does it if it's actually inserted into the
MBR or something.
-Tom
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| 792.18 | there is an option not load it | CHEFS::KOSKUBA_K | Karel_the_cotton_fist | Thu Mar 20 1997 05:16 | 18 |
| re .16
> AUTOEXEC.BAT to turn it on). Renaming/deleting DRVSPACE.BIN from the
> root directory certainly prevents this from happening, but I was
> wondering if there is a more graceful way of disabling it completely.
There is. I had the same problem and solved without having to
rename/delete DRVSPACE.BIN. But I'm not sure I remember what I did :^)
I either ran DriveSpace3 or got to it via properties on the disk -
either way, there was a question or a box to tick to the effect of not
loading DriveSpace on start-up. I think (but am not sure) there was a
warning that I wouldn't be able to read compressed floppies (or
something).
Hope it helps, however vague it is :^)
Karel.
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| 792.19 | BOOTOPT.EXE can disable DRVSPACE loading | RDGENG::KOSKUBA_K | | Thu Mar 20 1997 08:29 | 6 |
| Looking for another utility, I've stumbled upon BOOTOPT.EXE which
enables you to easily setup boot options, one of which is to load/not
load DBLSPACE or DRVSPACE. You can find in in 1996 archives in file
v15n16.zip on http://www.pcmag.com/
Karel.
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| 792.20 | It's in MSDOS.SYS | VIVIAN::RANCE | http://vivian.hhl.dec.com/rance/ | Mon Mar 24 1997 08:27 | 13 |
| MSDOS.SYS is a Hidden, Read-Only file in your root directory.
Change the attributes to allow you to edit it
ATTRIB -S -H C:\MSDOS.SYS
Then add the following lines in the section headed [Options]
DRVSPACE=0
DBLSPACE=0
Then set the attributes back to their original values
ATTRIB +S +H C:\MSDOS.SYS
StuartR
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| 792.21 | ? | WRKSYS::INGRAHAM | Andy | Mon Mar 24 1997 12:28 | 5 |
| > Then add the following lines in the section headed [Options]
> DRVSPACE=0
> DBLSPACE=0
Eh??
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| 792.22 | | JHAXP::DECARTERET | Live mice sit on us | Mon Mar 24 1997 13:05 | 1 |
| Eh what?
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| 792.23 | | UTRUST::TIMMER | Semper TECO! | Tue Mar 25 1997 01:29 | 9 |
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Eh, like in the way that he doesn't understand that you can edit
a binary file with the bootable operating system in it to
change some text in there. I don't either.
Not everybody runs Windoze-95...
Rien.
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| 792.24 | | SMURF::PBECK | Who put the bop in the hale-de-bop-de-bop? | Tue Mar 25 1997 01:46 | 5 |
| What binary file? MSDOS.SYS is a system, hidden file, but it's also
a text file. It doesn't contain the operating system, it contains
some options that control the booting of the operating system.
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| 792.25 | | RUSURE::EDP | Always mount a scratch monkey. | Tue Mar 25 1997 08:38 | 9 |
| MSDOS.SYS is a binary file in MS-DOS versions before 7. It is a text
file in version 7 (which comes with Windows 95).
-- edp
Public key fingerprint: 8e ad 63 61 ba 0c 26 86 32 0a 7d 28 db e7 6f 75
To find PGP, read note 2688.4 in Humane::IBMPC_Shareware.
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