john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer) (04/30/85)
I just bought my first IBM-PC compatible, so forgive me for a neophyte question.... Is there any way to install more than one device driver at a time under MS-DOS 2.11? I am assuming, of course, that both are not drivers for the same device. I would really like to install ansi.sys (for terminal emulation) and something like a ramdisk or driver for a brain-damaged printer at the same time. Please respond to wherever you deem appropriate. Thanks in advance. -- Name: John Ruschmeyer US Mail: Monmouth College, W. Long Branch, NJ 07764 Phone: (201) 222-6600 x366 UUCP: ...!vax135!petsd!moncol!john ...!princeton!moncol!john ...!pesnta!moncol!john Silly Quote: "Oh sair, it was Kahn. We found him in an unlinked inode. He put creatures in our bodies... made us post lies, say things, flame things, but keptin was strong..."
george@mnetor.UUCP (George Hart) (05/01/85)
> I just bought my first IBM-PC compatible, so forgive me for a neophyte > question.... > > Is there any way to install more than one device driver at a time under > MS-DOS 2.11? I am assuming, of course, that both are not drivers for the > same device. > > I would really like to install ansi.sys (for terminal emulation) and > something like a ramdisk or driver for a brain-damaged printer at the same > time. > > Please respond to wherever you deem appropriate. Thanks in advance. > > > -- > Name: John Ruschmeyer > US Mail: Monmouth College, W. Long Branch, NJ 07764 > Phone: (201) 222-6600 x366 > UUCP: ...!vax135!petsd!moncol!john ...!princeton!moncol!john > ...!pesnta!moncol!john > Silly Quote: > "Oh sair, it was Kahn. We found him in an unlinked > inode. He put creatures in our bodies... made us post > lies, say things, flame things, but keptin was strong..." Admittedly, I use 2.00 but this should work. On boot, DOS looks for a file called "CONFIG.SYS" which it expects contains the names of user written device drivers. It will then load them in (they have to be on your boot disk). This is run before the AUOTEXEC.BAT file is executed. In the 2.00 manual, ther is a sizeable appendix dealing with user written device drivers. Perhaps there is one in the 2.11 manual also. -- Regards, George Hart, Computer X Canada Ltd. {cbosgd, decvax, harpo, ihnp4}!utcs!mnetor!george
pier@ur-univax.UUCP (05/02/85)
If your compatible really works like a IBM PC under PC-DOS then just create a file called CONFIG.SYS on your boot disk and include the following: device=\path\path\ansi.sys device=\path\path\ramdisk.sys or whatever your driver is device=...... and so on for all the drivers you want to install. Happy driving. Pierre Darmon University of Rochester