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First post, by litestar

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Hello,
I've a program that requires a sys file to be loaded, but I've not used DOS in such a long time that I don't recall a way to load other than from config.sys. Thanks in advance.

Reply 1 of 8, by DosFreak

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IIRC, you can download programs that are able to load device drivers from the command line. Can't remember the names for any of them at this time.

I remember one coming with QEMM tho.

Going to go look through my software....

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Reply 3 of 8, by wd

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Depending on how they interface with the device driver, it may work
or not (especially block devices will never work). But just try it 😀

Reply 4 of 8, by litestar

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actually, the sys file I needed to load was some stupid window management for the program a client is using from the 80's, but I would still take another one if someone has it...

Reply 5 of 8, by Dominus

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ykhwong has the one I know on his download page. Go to http://ykhwong.x-y.net/ then english, in the top menu click data and then go to the 3rd page and download the device loader.

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Reply 6 of 8, by litestar

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This one worked much better than the one that I found...
devload works fine on FreeDOS, but this seems to work everywhere.
Thanks,
-- LS

Reply 7 of 8, by Dominus

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np, I knew that ykhwong had it somewhere. I used this program on real dos back in the days, because it often came handy and I *think* it came with some logitech mouse driver.

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Reply 8 of 8, by ykhwong

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It is a collection of device loaders that I found on the website.
The archive uploaded on my page is probably old-dated. I will search for newer one and update it. Thank you.