#MSCDEX high?
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Does anyone know how to load MSCDEX 2.20 high using DOS 5.0? I'm able to
load my CDROM.SYS driver high with no trouble, but when I put MSCDEX high
my system won't acknowledge my drive. Do I have to get a later version of
MSCDEX? I'm using, besides MSDOS 5.0, 4DOS 4.0 and Stacker 2.0 on a 386-25
system, and my CD-ROM drive is a Philips CDD461 external model. Any help
would be greatly appreciated.
Hugh, read file laser3.txt in lib #4 and all will become more muddled than
it is already!
Hugh, Everything I have read says NOT to load the CDROM.SYS driver high.
MSCDEX can be loaded high with no ill effects. I realize WE all try to
throw everything up in high memory…. but sometimes it just doesn't work.
Scott
73657,1046 Thanks for your reply. I've sure enough got CDROM.SYS loaded
high with no ill effects. I run MS Bookshelf memory resident (along with
Sidekick 2.00a resident) with no ill effects. However, whenever I try to
run MSCDEX high, with this line, the first in my autoexec.bat file,
lh C:\CDROM\MSCDEX /D:CDROM01 /M:6 my system won't recognize the
existence of the drive. The drive is recognized as drive E: (after A: and
B: floppies and C: and D: drives made by Stacker 2.0 from my hard disk)
when I use the command
C:\CDROM\MSCDEX /D:CDROM01 /M:6 This obtains regardless of whether
CDROM.SYS is loaded high or low. The config.sys line I use to load
CDROM.SYS high is
DEVICEHIGH=C:\CDROM\CDROM.SYS /D:CDROM01 /P:340 Besides that, I've
got loaded high (in the order in which they end up in memory) SYSTEM, 4DOS,
SMARTDRV, (CDROM), STACKER, MOUSE, ANSI, and SETVER. I want to push MSCDEX
high because I run with Sidekick and Bookshelf resident a text editor that
can read only files that fit into memory. Any ideas? Thanks for the
attention.