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SYSINI2.TXT
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  NOTE: This is the second of four files containing
        information about the SYSTEM.INI file. For general
        information about SYSTEM.INI and the listings in
        this file, read the introductory material in the
        SYSINI.TXT file.

  WARNING: If you change a setting incorrectly in
           SYSTEM.INI, you might disable your system. Before
           changing any setting, read "Changing Settings"
           in the SYSINI.TXT file.

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[386ENH] SECTION

The [386Enh] section contains information specific to
running Windows in 386 enhanced mode, including information
used for virtual-memory page swapping.

The [386Enh] section can contain the following settings:

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AllVMsExclusive=<Boolean>
  Default: false
  Purpose: If enabled, this setting forces all applications
           to run in exclusive full-screen mode, overriding
           all contrary settings in the applications'
           program information files (PIFs). Enabling this
           setting might prolong the length of the Windows
           session when you are running network and memory-
           resident software that is incompatible with
           Windows.
  To change: Use Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
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AltKeyDelay=<seconds>
  Default: .005
  Purpose: Specifies how much time Windows waits to process
           a keyboard interrupt after it processes an ALT
           interrupt.  Some applications expect a slower
           processing rate than Windows in 386 enhanced mode
           normally uses. Increase this value if such an
           application has trouble handling the ALT key.
  To change: Use Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
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AltPasteDelay=<seconds>
  Default: .025
  Purpose: Specifies how much time Windows waits before
           pasting any characters after the ALT key has been
           pasted. Some applications may require more time
           for recognition of the ALT keystroke.
  To change: Use Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
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CGA40WOA.FON=<filename>
  Default: none
  Purpose: Specifies the filename of the fixed-pitch display
           font used for non-Windows applications with a
           display of 40 columns and 25 or fewer lines.
  To change: Use Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
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CGA80WOA.FON=<filename>
  Default: none
  Purpose: Specifies the filename of the fixed-pitch display
           font used for non-Windows applications with a
           display of 80 columns and 25 or fewer lines.
  To change: Use Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
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CGANoSnow=<Boolean>
  Default: no
  Purpose: If enabled, causes Windows to do special handling
           to avoid snow appearing on an IBM CGA display
           device.
  To change: Use Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
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COM1AutoAssign=<seconds>
COM2AutoAssign=<seconds>
COM3AutoAssign=<seconds>
COM4AutoAssign=<seconds>
  Default: 2
  Purpose: Indicate the contention detection values for each
           connected communications port. These values are
           used by Windows to determine how to arbitrate
           requests for the use of a device by more than one
           application, at least one of which is a non-
           Windows application. If the value is -1, Windows
           will display a warning message that asks you
           which application should be given control of the
           port. If the value is zero, any application can
           use the device at any time. If the value is a
           positive integer less than 1,000, this value
           represents the number of seconds after an
           application stops using the device before another
           application can use the same device.
  To change: Choose the 386 Enhanced icon from the Control
           Panel window.
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COM1Base=<port>
COM2Base=<port>
COM3Base=<port>
COM4Base=<port>
  Default: COM1Base=3F8h; COM2Base=2F8h; COM3Base=2E8h;
           COM4Base=2E0h
  Purpose: Specifies the base (first) port for the serial
           port adapter you are using. Check you hardware
           documentation for the appropriate value.
  To change: Use Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
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COMBoostTime=<milliseconds>
  Default: 2
  Purpose: Specifies the amount of time (in milliseconds) to
           allow a virtual machine to process a COM
           interrupt. If a communications application is
           losing keyboard characters on the display, you
           can try increasing this value.
  To change: Use Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
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COM1Buffer=<characters>
COM2Buffer=<characters>
COM3Buffer=<characters>
COM4Buffer=<characters>
  Default: 128
  Purpose: Specifies the number of characters that will be
           buffered by the device on the corresponding
           communications port. Before changing one of these
           settings, make sure the corresponding
           COMxProtocol setting has the proper value.
           Buffering may slow down communications on a port,
           but might be necessary to prevent some
           communications applications from losing
           characters at high baud rates. The size of the
           buffer required will depend on the speed of the
           machine and the application's needs. Before
           increasing this value, see the COMxProtocol
           setting.
  To change: Use Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
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COM1Irq=<number>
COM2Irq=<number>
COM3Irq=<number>
COM4Irq=<number>
  Default: COM1Irq=4; COM2Irq=3; COM3Irq=4; COM4Irq=3
  Purpose: Specifies which interrupt line is being used by
           the device on the specified communications port.
           Check your hardware documentation for the
           appropriate value. Setting a value to -1 disables
           input for that COM port. You would do this only
           if there is a hardware conflict between ports.
  To change: Use Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
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COMIrqSharing=<Boolean>
  Default: true for Micro Channel (TM) and EISA machines;
           false for all other machines
  Purpose: Specifies whether COM IRQs will be sharable
           between mulitiple communications ports or with
           other devices. Enable this switch if your machine
           uses the same interrupt for COM3 or COM4 as it
           does for COM1 or COM2.
  To change: Use Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
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COM1Protocol=<XOFF-or-blank>
COM2Protocol=<XOFF-or-blank>
COM3Protocol=<XOFF-or-blank>
COM4Protocol=<XOFF-or-blank>
  Default: (Default is no entry, which is the same as any
            entry other than XOFF)
  Purpose: Specifies whether Windows in 386 enhanced mode
           should stop simulating characters into a virtual
           machine after the virtual machine sends an XOFF
           character. Set the value for a port to XOFF if a
           communications application using that port is
           losing characters while doing text transfers at
           high baud rates. Windows will resume simulating
           characters when the virtual machine sends another
           character after the XOFF character. Leave this
           setting disabled if the application is doing
           binary data transfers; enabling this switch might
           suspend binary transmissions. Windows will not
           check for XOFF characters if this setting is
           blank or set to anything other than XOFF. If the
           application continues to lose characters after
           this setting is properly set, try increasing the
           corresponding COMxBuffer value.
  To change: Use Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
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Device=<filename-or-*devicename>
  Default: none (Setup assigns appropriate values based on
             your system configuration.)
  Purpose: Specifies which virtual devices are being used
           with Windows in 386 enhanced mode. This value can
           appear in two ways: either the name of a specific
           virtual device file, or an asterisk (*) followed
           immediately by the device name. The latter case
           refers to a virtual device that is in the
           WIN386.EXE file. Synonyms for Device= are
           Display=, EBIOS=, Keyboard=, Network=, and
           Mouse=. Filenames usually include the .386
           extension. Multiple device lines are required to
           run Windows in 386 enhanced mode.
  To change: Use Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
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Display=<filename-or-*devicename> (See "Device=", above)
  Default: none (Setup assigns an appropriate value based on
             your system configuration.)
  Purpose: Specifies the display device that is being used
           with Windows in 386 enhanced mode. This setting
           is a synonym for Device=.
  To change: Choose the Windows Setup icon from the Main
           Group window.
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DMABufferIn1MB=<Boolean>
  Default: no
  Purpose: Indicates, if enabled, that the direct memory
           access (DMA) buffer memory should be in the first
           1MB of memory (above 640K, if possible) in order
           to be compatible with 8-bit bus master cards.
  To change: Use Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
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DMABufferSize=<kilobytes>
  Default: 16
  Purpose: Specifies the amount of memory (in kilobytes) to
           be reserved for buffered direct memory access
           (DMA). This memory will be allocated above 640K,
           if possible. Windows in 386 enhanced mode will
           default to a DMA buffer size that will handle
           disk access.
  To change: Use Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
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DualDisplay=<Boolean>
  Default: See "Purpose."
  Purpose: Normally, when running in 386 enhanced mode, the
           memory between B000:0000 and B7FF:000F will be
           used by the general system unless a secondary
           display is detected. If this setting is enabled,
           this memory will be left unused and available for
           display adapters. If this setting is disabled,
           the address range will be available on EGA
           systems but not under VGA systems, since the VGA
           display device supports monochrome modes, which
           use this address space.
  To change: Use Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
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EBIOS=<filename-or-*devicename> (See "Device=", above)
  Default: none (Setup assigns an appropriate value based on
             your system configuration.)
  Purpose: Specifies the extended BIOS device that is being
           used with Windows in 386 enhanced mode. This
           setting is a synonym for Device=.
  To change: Use Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
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EGA40WOA.FON=<filename>
  Default: none
  Purpose: Specifies the filename of the fixed-pitch display
           font used for non-Windows applications with a
           display of 40 columns and more than 25 lines.
  To change: Use Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
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EGA80WOA.FON=<filename>
  Default: none
  Purpose: Specifies the filename of the fixed-pitch display
           font used for non-Windows applications with a
           display of 80 columns and more than 25 lines.
  To change: Use Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
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EISADMA=<Boolean> or <channel>,<size>
  Default: 0,8; 1,8; 2,8; 3,8; 5,16w; 6,16w; 7,16w (Each
           pair goes with its own EISADMA setting.)
  Purpose: Specifies the mode of operation of an extended
           DMA channel for Extended Industry Standard
           Architecture (EISA) machines only. This
           setting's value can take one of two forms. If
           you disable this setting, Windows will treat the
           machine as non-EISA, therefore avoiding all EISA-
           related logic. You can try disabling this switch
           if you cannot run Windows in 386 enhanced mode
           on your EISA machine. If you are using an EISA
           machine, you can specify the default transfer
           size for one or more DMA channels. The channels
           can operate in the following modes: 8-bit (8),
           16-bit specified in words (16w), 16-bit specified
           in bytes (16b), or 32-bit (32). If you are not
           using an EISA machine, Windows will ignore this
           setting.
  To change: Use Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
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EMMExclude=<paragraph-range>
  Default: none
  Purpose: Specifies a range of memory that Windows will not
           scan to find unused address space. This has the
           side effect of turning off the RAM and ROM search
           code for the range. The range (two paragraph
           values separated by a hyphen) must be between
           A000 and EFFF. This scanning can interfere with
           some adapters that use the same memory area. The
           starting value is rounded down and the ending
           value is rounded up to a multiple of 16K. For
           example, you could set EMMExclude=C800-CFFF to
           prevent Windows from scanning the addresses
           C800:0000 through CFFF:000F. You can specify more
           than one range by including more than one
           EMMExclude line.
  To change: Use Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
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EMMInclude=<paragraph-range>
  Default: none
  Purpose: Specifies a range of memory that Windows will
           scan for unused address space regardless of what
           may be there. EMMInclude takes precedence over
           EMMExclude if you specify ranges that overlap.
           The range (two values separated by a hyphen) must
           be between A000 and EFFF. The starting value is
           rounded down and the ending value is rounded up
           to a multiple of 16K.  For example, you could set
           EMMInclude=C800-CFFF to ensure that Windows scans
           the addresses C800:0000 through CFFF:000F. You
           may specify more than one range by including more
           than one EMMInclude line.
  To change: Use Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
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EMMPageFrame=<paragraph>
  Default: none
  Purpose: Specifies the starting paragraph where the 64K
           page frame will begin when Windows in 386
           enhanced mode cannot find a suitable page frame.
           Allows an EMM page frame in an area containing
           some unused RAM or ROM. For example, you could
           set EMMPageFrame=C400 to start the page frame at
           C400:0000.
  To change: Use Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
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EMMSize=<kilobytes>
  Default: 65,536
  Purpose: Specifies the total amount of memory to be made
           available for mapping as expanded memory. The
           default allocates the maximum possible amount of
           system memory as expanded memory. You should
           specify a value for this setting if you run an
           application that allocates all of the available
           expanded memory. This will be apparent if, when
           you run the application, you can never create any
           new virtual machine. If this value is zero, then
           no expanded memory will be allocated, but the EMM
           driver will be loaded. This setting does not
           prevent the EMM driver from being loaded; use the
           NoEMMDriver to disable EMM.
  To change: Use Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
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FileSysChange=<Boolean>
  Default: on (But in a standard SYSTEM.INI file, Setup will
               set FileSysChange=off, disabling this
               setting.)
  Purpose: Indicates whether File Manager will automatically
           receive messages any time a non-Windows
           application creates, renames, or deletes a file.
           When this setting is disabled, a virtual machine
           can be run exclusively even when it manipulates
           files. Enabling this setting can slow down system
           performance significantly.
  To change: Use Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
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Global=<device-name>
  Default: (all devices)
  Purpose: Defines DOS devices loaded in CONFIG.SYS that
           need to be global to the system. The default
           setting for all devices is global. But certain
           virtual devices might specify that a DOS device
           be local (for example, MS$MOUSE). Use this
           setting to override that local specification. The
           <device-name> value must exactly match the case
           of the device name, or this setting will not
           work. (Most device names are in all captial
           letters, therefore this value must usually be in
           all caps.)
  To change: Use Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
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HighFloppyReads=<Boolean>
  Default: yes
  Purpose: Normally, Windows turns a DMA verify to the
           area E000:0000-EFFF:000F into a read in order to
           work around problems with certain machines. In
           rare cases, this might cause the system to fail
           because some software might, as a result, write
           over the system's shadow RAM if you have it in
           this area. If this happens, disable this setting
           and set EMMExclude to E000-EFFF.
  To change: Use Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
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IgnoreInstalledEMM=<Boolean>
  Default: no
  Purpose: If enabled, this setting allows Windows to start
           in 386 enhanced mode even when there is an
           unknown expanded memory manager (EMM) running.
           This can cause the system to fail if memory-
           resident software was using EMM before Windows
           started. Enable this setting only if no such
           software is installed or you are sure it will not
           be active when you are running Windows. This
           setting applies only to expanded memory managers
           servicing physical EMS hardware; Windows will not
           disable unrecognized 80386 expanded memory
           emulators.
  To change: Use Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
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InDOSPolling=<Boolean>
  Default: no
  Purpose: If enabled, prevents Windows from running other
           applications when memory-resident software has
           the InDOS flag set. Enabling this setting is
           necessary if the memory-resident software needs
           to be in a critical section to do operations off
           an INT21 hook. Enabling this setting will slow
           down system performance slightly.
  To change: Use Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
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INT28Critical=<Boolean>
  Default: true
  Purpose: Specifies whether a critical section is needed to
           handle INT28h interrupts used by memory-resident
           software. Some network virtual devices do
           internal task switching on INT28h interrupts.
           These interrupts might hang some network
           software, indicating the need for an INT28h
           critical section. If you are not using such
           software, you might improve Windows' task
           switching by disabling this setting.
  To change: Use Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
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IRQ9Global=<Boolean>
  Default: no
  Purpose: If enabled, converts IRQ9 masks to global. Enable
           this setting if your system hangs when your
           system touches a floppy drive. Or make sure your
           system touches the floppy drive before starting
           Windows.
  To change: Use Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file.
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NOTE: See the SYSINI3.TXT file for the remainder of the
      [386Enh] section listings.
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