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Warp 4 Config.sys
Does anyone have any information on what is needed and what is not in OS/2 Warp 4 Config.sya file? I am using my computer for basic stuff, and I do not think I need all the drivers that are loaded as default. I understand some of the basic drivers, but I would like to get a better understanding before I rem or remove any drivers.
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Do you use HPFS format in one drive, if no you can remove the IFS line (at the top) of your config.sys (you save memory).
If you do not use HPFS,
and never plan to use HPFS, remove:
IFS=E:\OS2\HPFS.IFS /CACHE:2048 /CRECL:64 /AUTOCHECK:E
If you never will use a CD-ROM, remove:
IFS=E:\OS2\BOOT\CDFS.IFS /Q
If you do not have a printer, remove:
BASEDEV=PRINT01.SYS
If all your disks *and* all your CD-ROM devices use SCSI, remove:
BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD
If you never plan to read specially-formatted
extra-capacity diskettes written by MICROSOFT, remove:
BASEDEV=XDFLOPPY.FLT
If you have *NO* SCSI devices, remove:
BASEDEV=OS2SCSI.DMD
and
BASEDEV=AHA152X.ADD
If you never plan to use UltiMail Lite/2,
remove the reference to it from your 'SET PATH' and your 'SET HELP' statements.
If you ever *accidentally* delete files,
and then want to use 'UNDELETE' to recover
them, then remove the 'REM' from this 'SET DELDIR' statement:
REM SET DELDIR=C:\DELETE,512;E:\DE LETE,512;
Is this correct for your geography:
SET TZ=EST5EDT
Is this correct:
SET HOSTNAME=MYHOSTNAME
It is quite a "boring" choice of names. :-)
Do you really need this many threads?
I rarely need more than 100 threads,
and never more than 500.
THREADS=1024
Do you have a SoundBlaster AWE 32 card
installed? If not, then remove:
DEVICE=E:\MMOS2\SBAWED2.SY S /C:1 /D:1 /H:5 /I:5 /A:220 /B:8 /M:330 /N:SBAUD1$ /Q /P
I've heard that moving the 'DEVINFO'
commands to the "top" of this file
will improve performance.
DEVINFO=KBD,US,E:\OS2\KEYB OARD.DCP
DEVINFO=SCR,VGA,E:\OS2\BOO T\VIOTBL.D CP
and never plan to use HPFS, remove:
IFS=E:\OS2\HPFS.IFS /CACHE:2048 /CRECL:64 /AUTOCHECK:E
If you never will use a CD-ROM, remove:
IFS=E:\OS2\BOOT\CDFS.IFS /Q
If you do not have a printer, remove:
BASEDEV=PRINT01.SYS
If all your disks *and* all your CD-ROM devices use SCSI, remove:
BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD
If you never plan to read specially-formatted
extra-capacity diskettes written by MICROSOFT, remove:
BASEDEV=XDFLOPPY.FLT
If you have *NO* SCSI devices, remove:
BASEDEV=OS2SCSI.DMD
and
BASEDEV=AHA152X.ADD
If you never plan to use UltiMail Lite/2,
remove the reference to it from your 'SET PATH' and your 'SET HELP' statements.
If you ever *accidentally* delete files,
and then want to use 'UNDELETE' to recover
them, then remove the 'REM' from this 'SET DELDIR' statement:
REM SET DELDIR=C:\DELETE,512;E:\DE
Is this correct for your geography:
SET TZ=EST5EDT
Is this correct:
SET HOSTNAME=MYHOSTNAME
It is quite a "boring" choice of names. :-)
Do you really need this many threads?
I rarely need more than 100 threads,
and never more than 500.
THREADS=1024
Do you have a SoundBlaster AWE 32 card
installed? If not, then remove:
DEVICE=E:\MMOS2\SBAWED2.SY
I've heard that moving the 'DEVINFO'
commands to the "top" of this file
will improve performance.
DEVINFO=KBD,US,E:\OS2\KEYB
DEVINFO=SCR,VGA,E:\OS2\BOO
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REM ### File-System-Drivers ###
REM ##########################
IFS=E:\OS2\HPFS.IFS /CACHE:2048 /CRECL:64 /AUTOCHECK:E
IFS=E:\OS2\BOOT\CDFS.IFS /Q
REM ##########################
REM ### BASE-DEVICE-DRIVERS ###
REM ##########################
BASEDEV=IBMKBD.SYS
BASEDEV=TIMER0.SYS
BASEDEV=PRINT01.SYS
BASEDEV=IBM1FLPY.ADD
BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD
BASEDEV=XDFLOPPY.FLT
BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD
BASEDEV=OS2SCSI.DMD
BASEDEV=AHA152X.ADD
BASEDEV=IBMIDECD.FLT
BASEDEV=IDEDRVR1.ADD /V
BASEDEV=OS2ASPI.DMD /SHARE
REM ######################
REM ### SET-STATEMENTS ###
REM ######################
SET USER_INI=E:\OS2\OS2.INI
SET SYSTEM_INI=E:\OS2\OS2SYS.I
SET OS2_SHELL=E:\OS2\CMD.EXE
SET AUTOSTART=TASKLIST,FOLDERS
SET RUNWORKPLACE=E:\OS2\PMSHEL
SET COMSPEC=E:\OS2\CMD.EXE
SET PATH=E:\NETSCAPE;E:\MPTN\B
SET DPATH=E:\STI\TWAIN;E:\STI\
SET PROMPT=$I[$P]
SET HELP=E:\NETSCAPE;E:\MPTN;E
SET GLOSSARY=E:\OS2\HELP\GLOSS
SET IPF_KEYS=SBCS
SET KEYS=ON
SET BOOKSHELF=E:\OS2\BOOK;E:\B
SET SOMIR=E:\OS2\ETC\SOM.IR;E:
SET SOMDDIR=E:\OS2\ETC\DSOM
SET SOMDDEBUG=10
SET SOMDMESSAGELOG=SOMD.LOG
SET ULSPATH=E:\LANGUAGE\CODEPA
SET LOCPATH=E:\IBMI18N\LOCALE;
REM SET DELDIR=C:\DELETE,512;E:\DE
SET EPMPATH=E:\OS2\APPS;E:\OPE
SET LANG=EN_US
SET TZ=EST5EDT
SET SOMDPORT=4096
SET SOMSOCKETS=TCPIPSOCKETS
SET AVLSVRNAME=AS
SET SOMDTIMEOUT=300
SET HOSTNAME=MYHOSTNAME
SET DMIPATH=E:\DMISL\BIN
SET IBMWORKS_INI=E:\BONUSPAK\I
SET CLASSPATH=E:\NETSCAPE\njcl
SET INCLUDE=E:\JAVAOS2\INCLUDE
SET LIB=E:\JAVAOS2\LIB;
SET SPCH_RUN=E:\VT\SPCH_RUN
SET SPCH_RO=E:\VT\SPCH_RO
SET SPCH_RW=E:\VT\SPCH_RW
SET SPCH_BIN=E:\VT\SPCH_BIN
SET SPCH_PATH=E:\VT\SPCH_RO\LA
SET SPCH_TRN=E:\VT\SPCH_BSF
SET MMBASE=E:\MMOS2;
SET DSPPATH=E:\MMOS2\DSP;
SET NCDEBUG=4000
SET NLSPATH=E:\MPTN\MSG\NLS\%N
SET ETC=E:\MPTN\ETC
SET I18NDIR=E:\IBMI18N
SET TMP=E:\TCPIP\TMP
SET VIO_SVGA=DEVICE(BVHVGA,BVH
SET VIDEO_DEVICES=VIO_SVGA
SET TWAIN=E:\STI\TWAIN
SET KILLFEATUREENABLED=ON
REM #####################
REM ### OS/2-COMMANDS ###
REM #####################
PROTSHELL=E:\OS2\PMSHELL.E
LIBPATH=E:\NETSCAPE;E:\STI
PRIORITY_DISK_IO=YES
BUFFERS=100
IOPL=YES
DISKCACHE=1024,LW,128
MAXWAIT=1
MEMMAN=SWAP,PROTECT
SWAPPATH=E:\OS2\SYSTEM 10240 20480
THREADS=1024
PRINTMONBUFSIZE=2048,134,1
COUNTRY=001,E:\OS2\SYSTEM\
PROTECTONLY=NO
CODEPAGE=437,850
REM ##########################
REM ### OS/2-DEVICE-DRIVERS ###
REM ##########################
DEVICE=E:\IBMCOM\LANMSGDD.
DEVICE=E:\IBMCOM\PROTMAN.O
DEVICE=E:\OS2\BOOT\TESTCFG
DEVICE=E:\OS2\BOOT\DOS.SYS
DEVICE=E:\OS2\BOOT\PMDD.SY
DEVICE=E:\OS2\BOOT\APM.SYS
DEVICE=E:\OS2\BOOT\OS2CDRO
DEVICE=E:\OS2\BOOT\POINTDD
DEVICE=E:\OS2\BOOT\MOUSE.S
DEVICE=E:\OS2\BOOT\COM.SYS
DEVICE=E:\BONUSPAK\RS231B\
DEVICE=E:\BONUSPAK\RS231B\
DEVICE=E:\MMOS2\SBAWED2.SY
DEVICE=E:\MMOS2\AUDIOVDD.S
DEVICE=E:\MMOS2\SSMDD.SYS
DEVICE=E:\MMOS2\R0STUB.SYS
DEVICE=E:\MMOS2\MIDI.SYS
DEVICE=E:\MMOS2\VCSHDD.SYS
DEVICE=E:\MPTN\PROTOCOL\SO
DEVICE=E:\MPTN\PROTOCOL\AF
DEVICE=E:\MPTN\PROTOCOL\AF
DEVICE=E:\MPTN\PROTOCOL\IF
DEVICE=E:\IBMCOM\MACS\NULL
DEVICE=E:\TCPIP\BIN\VDOSTC
DEVICE=E:\TCPIP\BIN\VDOSTC
DEVICE=E:\OS2\ATI0.SYS
DEVICE=E:\OS2\ATIM64.SYS
DEVICE=E:\OS2\VAD64.SYS
DEVICE=E:\BACKMAST\FTDVR.S
REM DEVICE=E:\BACKMAST\PTDVR.S
REM DEVICE=E:\BACKMAST\TTDVR.S
REM DEVICE=E:\BACKMAST\MSRASPI
DEVICE=E:\STI\TWAIN\ASPIDR
REM ####################
REM ### DOS-COMMANDS ###
REM ####################
FILES=20
BREAK=OFF
SHELL=E:\OS2\MDOS\COMMAND.
FCBS=16,8
RMSIZE=640
DOS=HIGH,UMB
REM ##########################
REM ### DOS-DEVICE-DRIVERS ###
REM ##########################
DEVICE=E:\OS2\MDOS\VEMM.SY
DEVICE=E:\OS2\MDOS\VXMS.SY
DEVICE=E:\OS2\MDOS\VDPMI.S
DEVICE=E:\OS2\MDOS\VDPX.SY
DEVICE=E:\OS2\MDOS\VWIN.SY
DEVICE=E:\OS2\MDOS\VW32S.S
DEVICE=E:\OS2\MDOS\VAPM.SY
DEVICE=E:\OS2\MDOS\VCDROM.
DEVICE=E:\OS2\MDOS\VMOUSE.
DEVICE=E:\OS2\MDOS\VCOM.SY
DEVICE=E:\OS2\MDOS\VSVGA.S
REM DEVICE=E:/OS2\MDOS\VASPI.S
REM #####################
REM ### MISCELLANEOUS ###
REM #####################
DEVINFO=KBD,US,E:\OS2\KEYB
DEVINFO=SCR,VGA,E:\OS2\BOO
RUN=E:\OS2\SMSTART.EXE
RUN=E:\MMOS2\MIDIDMON.EXE
RUN=E:\MMOS2\QRYMMCD.EXE
rem RUN=E:\IBMCOM\LANMSGEX.EXE
RUN=E:\MPTN\BIN\CNTRL.EXE
RUN=E:\TCPIP\BIN\VDOSCTL.E
DEVINFO=SCR,BGA,E:\OS2\VIO
REM ###############
REM ### REMAINS ###
REM ###############
CALL=E:\BONUSPAK\RS231B\PP
REM *** IBM VOICETYPE ***
CALL=E:\IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\NE
CALL=E:\OS2\CMD.EXE /Q /C E:\MPTN\BIN\MPTSTART.CMD >NUL