Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 18:26:09 +0100 (MET)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc: Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT crl DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Install bash as DOS 6.22 shell
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On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>
>On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Weiqi Gao wrote:
>
>> 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)?
>
>Bash is just another DJGPP program, so the amount of memory (DOS and 
>extended) that it leaves to its children depends on the DPMI host.  This 
>is all explained in the DJGPP FAQ, section 15.8.
...And I have loaded bash using up... 0 b of conventional memory. If you have
the UMBs enabled, cwsdpmi load's itself into them and the DJGPP app being
executed, uses only 17KB of memory (which I suspect to be the transfer buffer
and a part of the startup code). When you 'lh bash' you won't have even a bit
of conv mem eaten up by it.

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