Chapter 4: Configuring DOS and Windows sessions

Table of contents

• Using Merge Setup to configure your environment
  • Configuration categories
  • Personal Merge session configuration window
    • Options view
    • Drives & Filesystem view
    • Devices view
    • Display view
  • Specifying the scope of configuration changes
• Interpreting config.sys and autoexec.bat
• Specifying Windows versions
• Configuring memory
  • Setting standard (extended) memory for Windows
  • Using virtual memory in Windows 3.1
  • Maximizing conventional memory for DOS
  • Setting expanded memory (EMS) for DOS
• Configuring drives
  • Drive properties
  • File name mapping options
  • UNIX record locking options
  • Specifying the initial drive
• Using peripheral devices
  • Using serial ports
  • Using a modem
  • Using printers
    • Printing through the UNIX system spooler
    • Directly attaching printers
  • Using a mouse
  • Using a CD-ROM drive
    • Ejecting the CD from the drive
• Configuring display
  • Setting colors
  • Setting the size of a Windows window
  • Zooming options
    • Start Zoomed
    • Autozoom
  • Advanced configuration options in the Desktop environment
    • Suspending DOS or Windows when another window is currently active
    • Cutting and pasting between the X Window system and Windows
  • Advanced display options for DOS sessions
    • Specifying DOS fonts
    • Scaling DOS graphics
    • Setting DOS display types