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Based on long - term observation and practice, I have summarized some necessary drivers and TSR programs, which have the advantages of small memory occupation, fast speed, etc. The list is as follows:

HIMEM.SYS (XMS driver, the best one is in MS - DOS 7.10 to support large memory);
EMM386.EXE or UMBPCI.SYS (UMB and EMS memory drivers)
VIDE - CDD.SYS or PTSATAPI.SYS (CD - ROM drivers, occupying 5K and 2K respectively);
CLOAKING + MSCDEX + MOUSE (CD - ROM extension under CLOKAING and mouse driver, a total of only 5K memory can drive the mouse and CD - ROM);
Or:
Shsucd, CuteMouse (although the memory occupation is a little larger, the volume itself is very small, occupying 11K and 3K respectively);
Killer.exe;
DOSKEY (it is best to use the one in my ROM - DOS 7.10 boot disk, which is much better than the one brought by DOS, such as small volume, less memory occupation, no DOS version conflict problem, stronger function, such as supporting TAB key switching, etc.);
ZENO (display acceleration);
MouseClip (a very practical tool for mouse copy/paste and simulating direction keys function);
And so on.

Optional:
UNIVBE (VESA driver for graphics card);
DOSLFN (long filename driver program, version 0.32i and above);
ANSI.COM (a small and practical replacement program for ANSI.SYS);
PERUSE (screen scrolling function);
SMARTDRV or CACHECLK (disk acceleration);
FIX27;
DZ;
CLOCK;
DPMSAVE;
And so on.

As for what the great use of DOSKEY is, I still don't understand it. Can you give a specific example?

Bamboo Wengier, I've encountered you online several times, all in the late night.

Has your new site been built? There are too many DOS software wanting to be downloaded.

The functions of DOSKEY are numerous and all quite practical. For example:

1: Command macro function.
For instance, you can define that after entering a certain command on the command line, another command is automatically executed.

2: Command line editing function.
In this way, you can directly edit the command line using the arrow keys, etc., and also view and call various previously typed commands without re - entering them.

3: File/directory name auto - completion function.
In this way, you only need to enter the first one or several characters of the file/directory name, and press the TAB key to automatically input the complete file/directory name without manual input. And this method is very useful for Chinese file names. However, the DOSKEY that comes with DOS does not have this function. Only the DOSKEY in my boot disk has this function.

I am abroad, and it is different from Beijing time, so it is not really late at night.

As for the new website, well, you need space first.

Learned something new again!!!
Thanks!

Are there conflicts between ZENO and PERUSE?? After using ZENO, the functions of PERUSE are gone

ZENO and PERUSE do not have conflicts at least on my computer (MS-DOS 7.10).

Excuse me, moderator, how to load and run the programs from the CD-ROM?

A newbie asks which expert knows how to "reset CMOS".

DEVICEHIGH=VIDE-CDD.SYS can load the CD-ROM drive.

1. The software UNIVBE (VESA driver for graphics cards) I think should be a necessary software in the system disk and should be loaded when the system starts to provide high resolution and high refresh rate. After all, for those who use DOS as the system work platform and are used to high refresh rates, working at low refresh rates for a long time is unbearable.

2. My graphics card is S3 Savage, which does not support VESA 3.0. According to the information provided on your website and forum, after using SDD to make the graphics card support VESA 3.0, I used UNIVBE to set different resolutions and their corresponding refresh rates. But when starting CCDOS or DISKGENIUS or Tianhui and other DOS software using a graphical interface, the resolution and refresh rate are still 640*480@60Hz. Why is that? Can upgrading the BIOS of the graphics card make the graphics card support VESA 3.0?

3. If a large hard disk is installed on a motherboard that does not support it, and one day the hard disk cannot boot, after using your boot disk to start the system, can DOS correctly identify all the hard disk capacities? My opinion is that it cannot identify all the hard disk capacities.

4. By the way, what chipset does your motherboard use? Can the motherboard BIOS support an 80G hard disk? What chip is the graphics card using, and does the hardware support VESA 3.0?

5. What software do you use to partition and format the hard disk?

I currently have three computers: one is an Intel P120MHz with a Rhino motherboard; one is an Intel P200MHz with a VIA motherboard; and the last one is an AMD Athlon 1600+ (1400MHz) with a SiS735 chipset. All support large hard drives, but I only have a maximum 30GB large hard drive. Anyway, after using the MS-DOS 7.10 boot disk I made, DOS can recognize all the hard drive capacities.

I rarely use partitioning and formatting software myself. If I occasionally need to use it, I use the FORMAT and FDISK commands built into MS-DOS 7.10.

Supplement: Many versions of UNIVBE placed in some boot disks are not very good. Because they need to be automatically configured each time, and the configured settings cannot be saved.

doskey is a very cool tool