Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/03/17/10:19:30
On 17 Mar 1996, Christian Ward wrote:
> Okay. I'm working on a command interpereter for DOS.. something to
> completely replace the command.com. BUT, I'm having a big problem
> since I can't seem to get a DPMI host (server? whatever) up and
> running before autoexec.bat is run, by which time if the specified
> command shell has any problems it just falls back onto command.com.
>
> It would seem the solution would be to find a DPMI thingie that was
> loaded with a device line in the config.sys... anybody know of one? I
> thought emm386, but either I'm not giving it the right arguments or
> something, or emm386 doesn't provide dpmi services.
I think DOS 5 and later allow to load TSRs from CONFIG.SYS. Did you try
loading CWSDPMI that way? It has a switch (-p) to load as a TSR.
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