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Windows 98SE, 98, 95, 3.11 & 3.1
Understanding MSCDEX.EXE
☞ MSCDEX.EXE is the Microsoft CD-ROM Extensions software.
● Your CD-ROM utilitizes its drivers to allow it to communicate with your
computer.
● In much the same way, MSCDEX patches your CD-ROM into your operating system
(I.E. DOS)
● Following is a brief description of the command line switches for MSCDEX.EXE
and their usage:
• /D: (device name) Specifies the device name of the CD-ROM device. This name
must be the same as that on your driver statement. (Ex. /D:MSCD000)
• /L: (drive letter) Specifies for MSCDEX the drive letter to start assigning
the CD-ROM discs. (Ex. /L:M would set the CD-ROM as the M drive)
• /M:n Specifies the number of cache buffers for MSCDEX to allocate. (Ex. /M:20)
• /E Tells MSCDEX to use EMS (Expanded) memory for the cache buffers. If EMS is
available, this can save lots of RAM.
• /V Provides memory usage statistics on how much memory is used by buffers,
memory resident code, and resident data.
• /K Tells MSCDEX to use Kanji file structures if present.
• /S Tells MSCDEX to patch DOS to allow sharing of CD-ROM drives on MS-NET based
networks.
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