Hello!
I believe that when you load a driver in config.sys and autoexec.bat, you
must include the full path to the driver to be loaded. If your ansi.sys file
is in the DOS directory, you must write it as:
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS
I assume that the first three lines allow the use of the devicehigh command
in the the rest of the lines?
The last "bad command or filename" occurs after the cd-rom driver is loaded.
What's the first line of your autoexec.bat file?
I hope this starts to help.
Will Stephenson
Subject: [PCSOFT] DOS cold-boot confusion
I'm afraid this will be long, in the effort to help your diagnostic efforts.
On cold boot (with DOS 6.2), immediately after the note to the effect:
HIMEM is testing extended memory ... done I get the following 2 lines--
Bad or missing ANSI.SYS
Error in CONFIG.SYS line 4
but the boot operation now seems to continue without obvious problems.
The following screen traffic does seem a little ominous, however--
USDrive IDE BUS CD-ROM Device Driver Version 1.97
Unit 0 Base Address 170 Drive 0 Device version = ATAPI CDROM 1.70
Using 32 bits access
Device Driver Name = CD003
CD-ROM device driver installed
Bad command or file name
MSCDEX Version 2.23
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1986-1993. All rights reserved
Drive E: = Driver CD003 unit )
575296 bytes free memory
0 bytes expanded memory
12948 bytes CODE
2112 bytes static DATA
20882 bytes dynamic DATA
36208 bytes used
C:\
My copy of ANSI.SYS is in C:\DOS
My CONFIG.SYS file reads--
DEVICE=C: <Good Lord--I forgot to copy the 1`st three lines!>
DEVICE=C:
DEVICE=C:
DEVICEHIGH=ANSI.SYS
BUFFERS=20
FILES=40
BREAK=ON
DOS=HIGH, UMB
REM ===== USDrive IDE BUS CD-ROM Install Modification - Begin =====
DEVICE=C:\CDROMDRV\USDIDE.SYS /D:CD003
REM ===== USDdive IDE BUS CD-ROM Install Modification - End =====
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