Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/25/12:40:45
On 24 Nov 1996, Weiqi Gao wrote:
>I received a tip e-mail suggesting using the INSTALL command in CONFIG.SYS
>to install CWSDPMI.EXE as a resident program. It worked. (MEM /M:CWSDPMI
>shows it took up 47K of DOS memory, I didn't see an INSTALLHIGH command,
>at least not in DOS 6.2). My problem now seems to be:
DOS 6.2x has the INSTALLHIGH command, only it's undocummented.
>1. bash.exe still has problem starting up as a DOS shell. Whereas my
>error yesterday was "No DPMI" and then "Your command processor is no good",
>today, the message is ": cannot open." followed by "Your command processor
>is no good."
That's probably because bash does not comply with the shell specifications for
DOS. But there's nothing wrong in loading it as a normal app. It will remove
the transient part of command.com from the memory anyway. And since bash won't
ever return - you'll have no memory loss.
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