From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 12 20:21:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sdca.home.com [24.0.3.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E52BF37B7D6 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 20:21:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from RaymundoVega@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.5.252.61]) by mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000613032123.VZDF28251.mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com@home.com>; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 20:21:23 -0700 Message-ID: <3945A8B3.3F88F647@home.com> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 20:21:23 -0700 From: "Raymundo M. Vega" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: carl Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: console reso. References: <4.3.1.1.20000612152727.00a6e570@pop3.concentric.net> <20000613011242.B233@parish> <4.3.1.1.20000612194655.00a76a80@pop3.concentric.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG carl wrote: > > not really pertaining to which cards have VBE onchip, ..but what is a DOS > TSR files and what does it do? > It means "Terminate and Stay Resident" and is a program that stay in memory after it finishes execution, it is likned to a hardware interrupt to increase the capabilities of that interrupt service routine, it had several uses, for example to have macros executed by typing alt or control plus a letter, execute programs (remember sidekick) with a couple of keystrokes, and many many more. raymundo. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message