jvc@mirror.UUCP (12/22/86)
>/* Written 5:46 pm Dec 19, 1986 by pmt@sbstaff2.UUCP in mirror:comp.sys.ibm.pc */ />* ---------- "Some Questions" ---------- */ >*** chomp chomp ch k#$asdf%uie *** > > >I recently purchased a PC's Limited AT with 20MB hard-drive. > >I'm running under PC-Dos 3.2. > >Some questions: > ....... > > 2) How can I prevent the date and time request at boot-up? > (I have a clock-card so it knows what time it is....) DOS always prompts for date and time unless you have an autoexec.bat file in the root directory of your boot disk. If you can't think of anything to put in the autoexec.bat file, try putting the command: prompt $p $g You'll find this command very useful if you intend to use subdirectories with your hard disk. For more info on the prompt command, consult your DOS manual.
sridhar@usceast.UUCP (M. A. Sridhar) (03/04/89)
I'm new to the MSDOS world, so please help me out with these questions: (If it
matters, I just got a CompuAdd 286/12 with VGA and a NEC Multisync II monitor.)
1. Is there any way that I can change the colors on the display when using
the command processor? By default it has white characters on a black
background, and I'd like to change (if possible) both these.
2. Is there any way that I can have something like the `sysline' capability
of Unix on this machine? What I want is a line at the bottom of the display,
showing the data and time. It would be nice to be able to specify what I want
in that line.
3. Is there a port of the Unix `refer' program for a PC/AT? Someone suggested
talking to the Elan Computer Group in California, but Elan only sells eqn and
tbl (with troff), but not refer.
Thanks very much, in advance.
Sridhar
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Columbia, SC 29208 | (803) 777-2427 (Ma Bell) ganter@urz.unibas.ch (05/08/90)
Hello, I'am new here, but I hope to get some answers for these simple questions ( simple if you have the documents). As you know, IBM has the great knowledge to hide all information on there computers (if you want to pay a lot of money you can get reference manuals, there stands a little bit more as in the user manuals telling nothing with lot of words. Afer having read about fifty books on PC's, it seems I have broken trough that wall of pseudo-protection of IBM. But some questions are still open: 1. How do I program the so-called intelligent keyboard of an AT ? There is a rumor You can switch back into real mode with a shutdown value in the RTC and programming the keyboard. 2. Could anybody give me the full (!!) declarations of the microsoft mouse interrupt 0x33 functions (not only function 0,1 and two, there are much more) perhaps in C ? 3. Where is the location of the video-card and ROM in protected mode? Does the video-card base remain on its physical real mode adress, or is it swapped hard-wired to a higher adress like the ROM should do (if IBM did not change that automatic switching of the iAPX286/386/486 on initialization) ? e-mail to ganter@urz.unibas.ch Many thanks in advance Robert Ganter
mlord@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Mark Lord) (05/08/90)
In article <1990May7.182147.714@urz.unibas.ch< ganter@urz.unibas.ch writes: <... Afer having read about <fifty books on PC's, it seems I have broken trough that wall of <pseudo-protection of IBM. But some questions are still open: < <1. How do I program the so-called intelligent keyboard of an AT ? <There is a rumor You can switch back into real mode with a shutdown <value in the RTC and programming the keyboard. < <2. Could anybody give me the full (!!) declarations of the microsoft <mouse interrupt 0x33 functions (not only function 0,1 and two, there <are much more) perhaps in C ? < <3. Where is the location of the video-card and ROM in protected mode? <Does the video-card base remain on its physical real mode adress, or <is it swapped hard-wired to a higher adress like the ROM should do <(if IBM did not change that automatic switching of the iAPX286/386/486 <on initialization) ? The answers to these and other nitty-gritty questions can nearly always be found in a book entitled "The PC Programmers SourceBook" - microsoft press (?) Walk, no.. RUN to your local computer shop and buy/order a copy today. WARNING: This is not a book for novices.. it contains very little in the way of English or Swahilie [sic] writings for the hand-holding set. Instead, it is crammed full of technical facts on just about everything to do with IBM/MICROSOFT pinouts/interfaces/standards etc.. -- ______Mark S. Lord______________________ ______________________________ | ..uunet!bnrgate!carrsc!mlord | These are only MY opinions. | | or: bnr-rsc!mlord@bnrgate | I charge for official views. | |________________________________________|______________________________|