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bus you may be familiar with. If you plug a PCMCIA board into a PCMCIA slot and
have not yet run CSS, you will have no access to the functions of that PCMCIA board.
3.5.2 DOES CSS USE SYSTEM RESOURCES?
Yes. The CardSoft Card and Socket Services device drivers which are installed in
your CONFIG.SYS use about 61K of memory. These files can be installed DEVICE-
HIGH.
The CBCLIENT.EXE installed in your AUTOEXEC.BAT uses about 10K of
memory. The CBCLIENT.EXE program is a TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident).
You may modify the program line to LOADHIGH the TSR. We have tested it both
high and low with and without Windows and a variety of other applications. We
believe it is a safe TSR that will not cause any system problems.
3.5.3 HOW DO I KNOW CSS IS INSTALLED AND RUNNING?
There is a simple test. Just plug in your PCM-card. If CSS is installed and working
the computer will beep. You can remove and replace your PCM-card as often as you
like and need not power down to do so. The computer should beep each time you
insert the PCM-card.
3.5.4 WHAT ABOUT CSS FOR MULTIPLE PCM BOARDS?
Once the current version of CSS is installed, CSS is installed for all PCM boards
included in that version of CSS. As new PCM boards become available, they will be
added to the CSS and you will want to always have the most recent version of
CBCLIENT.EXE installed in the C:\CB directory. Let the installation software do
this for you.
You can run multiple PCMCIA boards with the CBCLIENT.EXE CSS, and, if you
have another CLIENT program running for other PCMCIA boards, it will not
interfere.
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