Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 09:00:49 +0000
From: Bill Currie <billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz>
Subject: Re: Install bash as DOS 6.22 shell
To: Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT crl DOT com>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Reply-to: billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz
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Weiqi Gao wrote:
> Well, I did experiment and came out with the following problems:
> 1.  If I specify SHELL=D:\PATH\BASH.EXE in CONFIG.SYS,  DOS 6.22 will
> complain about "No DPMI" and then "Your command processor is no good".  It
> falls back to COMMAND.COM .
> 2.  If I fire up bash from the DOS command line, it will eat up a big
> chunck of my DOS memory (409K -> 312K).  But everything else works fine.
> 3.  I don't have any DPMI server that I can (or know how to) load before
> the SHELL= command in CONFIG.SYS .

Try putting

install={path}cwsdpmi.exe -p

in your config.sys before your shell=.  This was once posted to the
group months ago, so I don't know how well it will work, but it's worth
a try.

Bill
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