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IBM PERSONAL COMPUTER ON-LINE HELP
Enhancements to the Default System Configuration
The CONFIG.SYS file defines the following features:
ANSI.SYS device driver is installed to provide enhanced keyboard
and display capabilities.
VDISK.COM device driver is installed to define an electronic disk
of 16K bytes as drive D:. The size of the RAM disk has been set
previously by using RSVD to re-size the device created by VDISK.
BUFFERS=15 sets the number of I/O buffers to 15.
FILES=10 sets the maximum number of files allowed to be open at the
same time to 10.
BREAK=ON allows applications to recognize Ctrl-Break interrupts.
The AUTOEXEC.BAT file implements the following feautres:
KBDBUF extends the size of the keyboard buffer to 159 characters.
PATH extends the search path for executable files to the root directory
and to the appropriate sub-directories of \utility to allow access to
the public domain utilities installed on the system.
BACKSCRL defines a circular screen buffer of 8 pages of 25 lines each
to allow for the recovery of previously displayed information.
BAT installs the Extended Batch Language that significantly enhances
the capabilities of .BAT files.
LABELVOL changes the label of the drive D: RAM disk to RAMDISK.
COPY copies the IBM Personal Editor support files to the D: RAM disk.
SET places the appropriate character strings into the DOS environment
to provide the following features to the user supported utility UTIL:
the editor function calls the IBM Personal Editor; the DO$$$.BAT file
is written to the RAM disk on drive D:; options are set to lower case
for directory lists, verify on for copy operations, pause before
overwriting an existing file, and omit the display of the space
remaining on a hard disk.
DPATH extends the search path for *.### HELP files to the appropriate
sub-directories of \help and permits the IBM Personal Editor to access
its support files copied to the drive D: RAM disk.
DOSEDIT defines a circular buffer of 256 bytes that allows access to
the most recently entered DOS commands and defines enhanced command
line editing capabilities. Command aliases contained in the file
ALIAS.LST are installed.
SCRN blanks the display after 3 minutes of inactivity on the keyboard.
GRAPHICS allows the IBM Graphics Printer to print graphics displays.
VERIFY is set to ON for all copy operations.
SETCLOCK initializes the DOS system clock from the Apparat Clock.
STARTUP.TXT is displayed as a banner message.
PROMPT sets the DOS prompt to ">" without a drive designation.