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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Win 3.0, TSR's, and DOS Windows
Message-ID: <1990Sep11.161917.24008@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 11 Sep 90 16:19:17 GMT
References: <2010026@hpctdkg.HP.COM>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA.
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In article <2010026@hpctdkg.HP.COM> kid@hpctdkg.HP.COM (Kevin Dietz) writes:
>
>Hello,
>
>This is a follow up to my previous posting about multiple DOS windows in
>Windows 3.0.  My problem was that I loaded a TSR (Command Retriever 2.0)
>prior to entering windows.
>
>As usual, an answer to one question raises new questions.  Like is there
>any way I can get this to work?  I don't run windows all the time, so I'm
>not ready to give up my retriever just yet.  If I had to, I wouldn't mind
>uninstalling the retriever prior to entering windows, but I can't figure
>out how to make this retriever uninstall itself.  If I did this, I would
>like to be able to reload it inside windows.  I tried loading it from a 
>DOS window, but this caused more problems.
>
>So all of this could put me in the market for a new command line retriever,
>one that can at least uninstall itself and work when loaded from within
>windows.  Any suggestions?  One thing I really like about my retriever is
>it handles aliases, function key assignments, and it will pop up a window
>with previously typed commands by pressing Ctrl-W.  I've looked briefly
>at some other retrievers out there, but could not find one that I liked as much
>as the one I use.
>
>Suggestions from those that have run into this and have a solution would
>be greatly appreciated.
>

Try running 4dos as your command interpreter instead of command.com, and then
chuck your retriever. 4dos has pretty much the same functions, and it co-
exists with windows quite nicely. If setup correctly, each instance of a 4dos
window can share the same environment, saving space. It can also use extended
ot expanded memory (or disk) to swap parts of itself out, and for its
environment.

You can get it as

wuarchive.wustl.edu:mirrors/msdos/sysutl/4dos301a.zip

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