dave@micropen (David F. Carlson) (04/27/88)
This is a locally developed man page for DOSMerge running under
Microport UNIX. Compress this and store it in /usr/catman/man1.
If you use news compress(1) rather than pack(1), you must add an extra
'*.Z' option to /usr/bin/man shell script to invoke zcat(1) instead of
pcat(1). (Wouldn't it be better is AT&T admitted news compress is
better than pack like BSD 4.3 did!)
Have fun kiddies...
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NAME
DDoossMMeerrggee - MS-DOS(tm) under UNIX(tm) Virtual Machine (VM86
on V/386)
SYNOPSIS
ddooss ++-- [ffllaaggss] ffiilleennaammeess
DESCRIPTION
ddooss sets various options for the files given in the
ffiilleennaammeess list. Each option is preceded by a ++ or --,
indicating that the option should be added or removed,
respectively. Each ++ and -- sign is followed by a flag option
described as follows:
++-- aa[zzzzzz] - Assign the device [zzzzzz] to the files in
ffiilleennaammeess. (Ex., +acom1=/dev/tty01 to attach UNIX tty
to DOS process.)
++-- bb - Behaved program. This option redirects the
standard input and output to and from UNIX,
respectively. This option for line oriented DOS
applications only.
++-- dd[ddiisskk] - Specify the initial current drive to be
ddiisskk, where ddiisskk is any logical DOS disk drive name.
++-- ee[ffiillee] - Use the device configuration file given by
ffiillee. (Ex., +e/usr/dbin/config.sys).
++ hh - Print help information to the standard output.
++-- ll[ffiillee] - Load DOS image file ffiillee. (Allows EGA
users to run CGA directed programs.)
++ mm[ssiizzee] - Set the memory size to the number of
kilobytes given by ssiizzee. The letters ll, ss, or nn can be
substituted for the number of kilobytes and stand for
the llarge, ssmall, and nno memory model, respectively.
++-- pp[ffiillee] - Make command.com 'Permanent'. ffiillee is the
file that autoexec.bat should run. (Ex.,
+p/usr/dbin/autoexec.bat.)
++-- ss[sseecc] - Spool DOS printer output to the UNIX
printer. Timeout is set to sseecc seconds,
++-- tt - Translate DOS command line arguments,
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++-- vv - Verbose. Display acknowledgement message,
++-- xx - Set DOS break. (Whether BREAK is checked for
under DOS.)
BUGS
DOS devices requiring DMA will hang the DOS process even
though the DMA channel is correctly assigned to the dos
process. The process can be killed from UNIX.
DOS processes wait for input in a polling loop, and have the
ability to comsume large amounts of processor time.
DOS processes requiring timer interrupts have behavioral
problems related to receiving to many or too few interrupts.
No support for extended memory is available: 640k maximum
DOS space.
UNIX(tm) is a trademark of AT&T. MS-DOS(tm) is a trademark
of Microsoft. DosMerge is a trademark of Locus Computing
Corp.
SEE ALSO
/etc/dosdev - MS-DOS device mapping file, /etc/dosenv - MS-
DOS default invocation environment /etc/dosapp - MS-DOS
default application environment /usr/dbin/* - MS-DOS binary
directory under UNIX(tm) file system
IDENTIFICATION
Authors: David F. Carlson & Steven Owens, Micropen Inc.,
Pittsford, N.Y. 14534
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David F. Carlson, Micropen, Inc.
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