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From: akm@cacofonix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Increasing command.com's environment space
Keywords: command.com 4dos.com
Message-ID: <1990Jun7.183246.27356@cs.uoregon.edu>
Date: 7 Jun 90 18:32:46 GMT
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In article <7462@fy.sei.cmu.edu> bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson) writes:
>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
>
>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. 

For some reason, the problem doesn't happen with my setup. I
frequently open one or more 4dos windows to use its file
management/file name completion, and then "forget" about the windows,
and go back to Win3.0. During a typical "heavy" work schedule, I
typically have two to four dos apps running, of which two on the
average are 4dos. I also believe that Windows loads 4dos everytime it
opens a window for a dos app: I see some of the 4dos start up messages
whenever I launch a dos application.

kartik


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Anant Kartik Mithal					akm@cs.uoregon.edu
Department of Computer Science				akm@oregon.BITNET
University of Oregon