DRIVPARM and DRIVER.SYS (Was: IBM PC-DOS 2.10 explorations

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Sun Oct 4 14:16:16 CDT 2020


>> On SOME systems, you could substitute
>> DRIVPARM = /D:1 /F:2 for similar effect.

On Sun, 4 Oct 2020, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> IIRC, in xDOS 3.2 and 3.3 DRIVPARM produced an error if specified as
> usual, but when DRIVPARM was suffixed by a string of three contorl-A
> (hex 01h) characters, it worked fine.
> Good ol' DOS arcana.

THANK YOU!  That provides some clues about the issue of BIOS, not DOS,
incompatability.


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