bradley.grigor@canremote.uucp (BRADLEY GRIGOR) (11/29/89)
DP>CHKDSK did something new (to me); reported homeless clusters, asked if DP>they should be rolled into named files; but on keying Y=yes we could DP>not find any such files (FILE000.CHK, FILE001 and so forth.) This was DP>in DOS 4.01, by the way. No FILE*.* or *.CHK anywhere on the disk. Say: CHKDSK /F then CHKDSK **really** truly collects the lost clusters! Otherwise, it's just telling you about it -- but won't do anything about it! DP>1 -- printer /d:lpt1 in CONFIG.SYS; no such command line in his PRINTER.SYS is a device driver that came out with DOS 3.3. I don't use it, so I have no idea why it's needed. DP>2 -- last line of AUTOEXEC invoked FASTOPEN.EXE -- not on disk; and my FASTOPEN is a TSR that makes re-opening a file faster. It keeps a list of the most recently used file names and locations in memory and can open them without do a lot of directory accessing. Came out in DOS 3.3. Run it as: FASTOPEN [ drive:[=nnn] ] where drive is C, D, etc. and nnn is list size between 10 and 999 (default 10 in MS-DOS, 34 in PC-DOS) DP>copy of DOS POWER TOOLS says never to use this when ASSIGN is active, You cannot use FASTOPEN on a drive that has been JOINed, ASSIGNed or SUBSTITUTEd or with a network drive. -- bag (Mainline Technologies) --- ~ EZ-Reader 1.21 ~ Luck I had my DOS pocket reference handy!