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From: boyer@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Charles David Boyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DESQview as a shell
Message-ID: <26021@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 14 Sep 89 14:05:25 GMT
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Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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andy@mks.UUCP (Andy Toy) writes:

>Has anybody successfully use DESQview as a shell?

>i.e.  SHELL=c:\dv.exe in config.sys

>Actually, I use a slight variation on this which sets COMSPEC first.
>-- 
>Andy Toy, Mortice Kern Systems Inc.,       Internet: andy@mks.com
>  35 King Street North, Waterloo,       UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!andy
>      Ontario, CANADA N2J 2W9      Phone: 519/884-2251  FAX: 519/884-8861

How?  How do you set the comspec first.  Do you run DV.COM to take advantage
of extended memory available?  What about some TSR programs that need to be 
run before DesqView, such as a disk cache etc.?

Dave Boyer