Chapter 3: Working in the SCO Merge environment

Table of contents

Basic information

• The default SCO Merge environment
• About drives and file systems
  • Typical drive setup
    • Drives A and B: The floppy drives
    • Drive C: The personal drive
    • Drive D: The entire UNIX file system
    • Drive J: The shared drive
  • The startup directory
  • Accessing files with invalid DOS names
    • Mapping of UNIX file names
    • The udir command
  • Accessing files with uppercase names
• Printing in the SCO Merge environment
  • Printing from a DOS session
  • Printing from a Windows session
    • Setting up printers in Windows 95
    • Setting up printers in Windows 3.1
• Using networking under Windows
• Installing applications
  • General tips for installing DOS and Windows applications
    • Installation searches
    • Special installation tips for DOS applications
  • Installing DOS applications with advanced processor requirements
  • Installing copy-protected applications
    • Applications that use key disks
    • Applications that must be installed on real DOS file systems
• Removing applications

Advanced information

• Accessing other users' files
  • File and record locking
  • Applications and file permissions
  • File permission errors
• Network applications
  • Where to install network applications
  • File permission issues
  • Limiting access to public applications
• About autoexec.bat and config.sys files
• Restricted DOS commands
• The DOS search path
• DOS environment variables
• Cutting and pasting