Information about MSCDEX.EXE

[PJ]

Hi All!
There have been many inquiries about CDROM drives in here lately, and I thought I might just put in my own $0.02, and sharing with you what I know about the mscdex.exe program

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MSCDEX-Version 2.23
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These are the command line switches that I know - please correct/add, I'm always willing to learn

Switch Description
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/D : <device name> Tells MSCDEX.EXE where
to find device driver.

/E Tells MSCDEX.EXE to
use expanded memory if
your system is using
expanded memory.

/L : <drive letter> MSCDEX.EXE starts at
the drive letter
specified.

/K Tells MSCDEX.EXE to
use any Kanji
(Japanese) file
structures, if
present, rather than
the default of
standard alphanumeric
file structures.

/S Instructs MSCDEX.EXE
to patch DOS to allow
sharing of CD-ROM
drives on MS-NET based
network servers.

/M : <value> Tells MSCDEX.EXE how
much memory to
allocate for caching
information on CD-ROM.

/V Provides memory usage
statistics, such as
how much memory is
used by buffers,
resident data,
resident code.
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I hope somehow, somewhere, this info has helped someone from tearing their hair out!

PJ

EDIT: okay, hopefully this clears up the emoticon problem - sorry, i had a : and a ( in too close proximity, and silly me didn't realize that it would be interpreted as a UBB code! (ie. the message below - seconds after that, i realized i could just go back and edit this message - i'm just not having a good night, me thinks i need sleep! )

[This message has been edited by PJ (edited 04-11-99).]

[PJ]

Oh rats!
I just realized that the colon and open left bracket comes out as an emoticon. I hope y'all can interpret it properly!

Igor M, is there anyway to temporarily disable the smiley UBB codes?