From: Mike Little <MikeL AT amprsoft DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Install bash as DOS 6.22 shell
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 13:21:33 GMT
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References: <574ef8$5dk AT nexp DOT crl DOT com> <01bbd8e8$2f3c16a0$010200c0 AT weiqigao>
Reply-To: MikeL AT amprsoft DOT demon DOT co DOT uk
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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In article: <01bbd8e8$2f3c16a0$010200c0 AT weiqigao>  "Weiqi Gao" 
<weiqigao AT crl DOT com> writes:
> 
> Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT crl DOT com> wrote in article <574ef8$5dk AT nexp DOT crl DOT com>...
> > I just downloaded the new port of bash from simtelnet.  I'm extremely
> > impressed by it (and all the other DJGPPish ports).
Watch out for the bug I found!
If you are in the middle of a reverse search up your history list (Ctrl-r)
and then press TAB, it locks!

Make sure you have the test utils, file utils and shell utils to get the 
full benefit.

> > 
> > I'm planning on installing it as the default DOS shell for my DOS 6.22
> > machine.  I know I could experiment, but if there is a recommended way
> > of doing this, I would be glad to know.
> > 
> > Questions:
> > 1. How would this affect the memory configuration of the system?
> > Would I have more/less/same amount of memory for running POD (Plain
> > Old DOS) programs (the 640K thing)?
> > 2. How would this affect the environment space specified by DOS?
> > Would the PS1/HOME/SYSROOT/etc setting go into the 1K DOS Environment
> > space?  What about aliases?
> > 3. Is there a general rule for where to put things?  (AUTOEXEC.BAT,
> > CONFIG.SYS, ~/.bash_profile/, etc.)
> 
> 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 .

You could always try:
install=c:\djgpp\bin\cwsdpmi.exe -p
before  the SHELL= line 

Be warned I haven't tried this!!!

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