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From: bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Increasing command.com's environment space
Keywords: command.com 4dos.com
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Date: 7 Jun 90 15:03:38 GMT
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Reply-To: bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson)
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In article <1990Jun7.051132.14399@cs.uoregon.edu> akm@getafix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) writes:
>Another solution is to use 4dos, whic is a shareware command.com
>replacement. It is available on Simtel20 and its mirror sites. 4dos
>adds a whole bunch of things that command.com does not have, has been
>completely compatible for me so far. I shell to it from win3, and it
>works just fine. You can define very large environment areas in for
>your path, set variables and aliases (three separate areas). Works
>like a breeze.

One small bug in 4dos is when swapping to windows (not exiting 4dos) and
then back to 4dos will hang your system.  I don't have win 3.0 yet, but
understand it still is a problem, at least in the 286 mode.  Rex Conn,
author of 4dos, is aware of the problem and working on it.  Otherwise,
it is a great program. 

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