PC-MOS Support

SUNDB86x Only

The following notes apply to the use of this software under The Software Link's PC-MOS product:

1. The PC-MOS Enqueue/Dequeue or Netbios device driver must be loaded instead of the SHARE command for multi-access/multi-user file access to function. This is accomplished by adding the following line to the host system's CONFIG.SYS file:
   
   DEVICE=$ENQDEQ.SYS
   or
   DEVICE=$NETBIOS.SYS
   

2. To avoid potential conflicts with SUNDBSYx, that remains RAM resident, the following line should also be added to the CONFIG.SYS file:
   
   FREEMEM=none
   

3. The commands to set the maximum number of concurrent File Handles for the system (FILES=) and to load the ANSI device drivers (DEVICE=ANSI.SYS) do not need to be included since PC-MOS already incorporates them.

4. PL/B KEYIN instructions place a great demand upon the CPU. To minimize this load, the following PC-MOS utility may be executed on each user station:
   
   MOS DIS
   
   Consult the PC-MOS User's Guide for more information. Note that this effectively disables the *T list control.

5. Use of the windowing/sub-screening screen definitions may overwrite the console display unless appropriate measures are taken for those programs that write directly to video RAM (i.e., that are very common but referred to as 'ill-behaved' by The Software Link). The ANSI screen definition avoids these types of conflicts by letting the operating system control screen I/O, but it does not support windowing/sub-screening.

6. Since PC-MOS partitions the memory as well as providing CPU time slicing, SUNDBSYx must be loaded by each user station.

See Also: Compiler and Runtime Options