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From: routh@eltanin.rtp.semi.harris.com (Kevin Routh x622)
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Subject: Re: Other 4DOS Bugs?
Keywords: 4DOS, bugs
Message-ID: <1990Jul8.121531.10129@mlb.semi.harris.com>
Date: 8 Jul 90 12:15:31 GMT
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Please let me clarify the problem I posted yesterday, as some responses
seem to be confused.  To review, this is what I posted yesterday:

>> Date: Sat, 7 Jul 90 15:12:14 GMT

>> I just downloaded 4DOS 3.01a from the net about four days ago.  I
>> installed it on my IBM AT at work (with EMS) and on my IBM XT
>> at home.  4DOS on the machine at work uses EMS swapping, but I
>> installed 4DOS at home to be resident in memory with the thought that
>> it would speed it up by avoiding a disk swap file.  Well, on the XT,
>> secondary shells do not receive the aliases from the primary shell.  At
>> work, on the AT, secondary shells do receive the aliases.  I found that 
>> the only difference was the swapping method (or lack thereof).  So I let
>> the version on the XT use disk swapping instead of being resident, and
>> bingo, the aliases got passed to the secondary shells.  I could not find
>> this behavior descibed in the manual, is this a bug or is it intentional?
>> Has anyone else seen this?  It's the ONLY flaw I have found so far in the
>> program, it's a wonderful piece of software so far.


The following EXACT excerpt from the manual is what makes me think it
might be a bug:
 
top of page 26:  4DOS Reference Manual Copyright 1990, J.P. Software

>        You should not load any memory-resident programs (TSRs) from the
>        4START file, because 4DOS will attempt to load them every time it
>        starts a new shell.
> 
>        You shouldn't load aliases from 4START, since 4DOS will pass them
>        --- --------- ---- ------- ---- ------- ----- ==== ==== ==== ====
>        automatically to secondary shells.
>        ============= == ========= =======

The double underlined statement is not true for shells invoked in the
non-swapping, memory resident mode (at least as far as I can
determine).  Thanks for the help.
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Kevin Routh (routh@eltanin.rtp.semi.harris.com)
Harris Smart Power Products, Durham, NC
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