Hi Bill Wolff!
06-Nov-96 14:51:07, Bill Wolff tapped feverishly away
and wrote to Gary Pyska Subject: GEOS running Under MSDOS7
 GP>> ... Since I upgraded to win95 I haven't been able to run geos
 GP>> anymore. Doesn't like DOS7.
 BW> I run GEOS Ensemble v2.01 from Windows 95 all of the time. What
 BW> happens when you try to run GEOS from DOS7? Maybe this might help...
 BW> ============================
 BW>  Area:    GEOWORKS
 BW>  Date:    20 May 96  19:35:00
 BW>  From:    Chris Sallek
 BW>  To:      All
 BW>  Subject: Alt To Setver
 BW> ============================
 BW>  GW Steve: Ready for the trivia question?
 BW>  GW Steve: If you're using Win95 or PC DOS 7, with Ensemble
 BW>            2.0, what can you do *instead* of loading and
 BW>            using SETVER?
 BW>  GW Steve: add this line to the [system] section of GEOS.INI
 BW>            "fs = ms4.geo"
 BW>   Only try this with the above OS's. It won't work with DR-
 BW> DOS (or Novell, I think... maybe not even some MS-DOS's...
 BW> I don't remember all of the caveats besides only using it
 BW> with those two OS's).
With the Digital Research/Novell/Caldera DOS the 'ms4.geo' would
have to be replaced with the appropriate geode. 'drdos.geo' or
something like that. Novell identifies itself as MS-DOS 6.0 but I
think it still needs the same geode. PC DOS 7.0 already has the
SETVER entry so the default installation of PC DOS 7.0 should run
Ensemble without any changes. However, if you leave SETVER out of
CONFIG.SYS you would then need to specify the ms4.geo geode.
 BW>   The nice thing is if you are only loading SETVER.EXE to
 BW> use Geoworks, you no longer need to load it with this fix.
 BW> Might free up some conventional memory for some folks.
Very true. With scanners, Zip (tm) drives, CD-ROMs, disk caches
and more requiring device drivers to be loaded, memory is getting
a bit scarce on some machines. I ended up with PC DOS 7.0, but
replaced SMARTDRV with NWCACHE in order increase conventional
memory. I have a dual boot with OS/2 and Ensemble-OS/2 seems to
be an ideal combination.
Regards
Peter Campbell
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