Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!math.lsa.umich.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!haven!decuac!e2big.mko.dec.com!bacchus.pa.dec.com!decwrl!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!att!cbnewsm!nsw From: nsw@cbnewsm.att.com (Neil Weinstock) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: REZ, resident, SKsh, newshell (I'm confused) Message-ID: <1990Aug12.183427.24704@cbnewsm.att.com> Date: 12 Aug 90 18:34:27 GMT Sender: nsw@cbnewsm.att.com (Neil Weinstock) Distribution: na Organization: The Flying Squid Patrol Lines: 36 I'll try to make this brief, but it's a little convoluted. I have always in the past used REZ; it worked fine and I didn't use the 1.3 shell anyway. Now I've switched to SKsh and REZ doesn't consider it pure, so it won't share it. According to the SKsh docs, it *is* pure, and I have set the pure bit. My first question is, anyone know why REZ doesn't consider SKsh to be pure? I am now juggling three resident commands: SKsh resident, AmigaDOS 1.3 resident, and REZ. I have two goals: 1) speed up invocations of new shells and 2) make SKsh shared to reduce memory consumption (I'm only working with 1 Meg, so it's important). I have not been having much luck. If I make SKsh resident using it's own resident command, then that works, but doesn't solve my problem, since I usually pop up new shell windows with the dmouse hotkey. It also means that the *first* SKsh is not running out of a resident copy, wasting ~60K. So, I tried making SKsh resident using the 1.3 command, and converting over to using the 1.3 shell. This appears to have absolutely no effect. I feel like I have tried everything: I have made all the commands in my shell-startup file (which is in RAM:) resident along with SKsh, but it still grinds the harddisk and eats up enough memory for a brand new copy of SKsh. I even REZed newshell, which seemed to be the only way to solve that part of the problem. All to no effect. Anyone have some obvious pointers on how to make this all work? The interaction between all the various resident systems has never been particularly clear to me, but the bottom line is that 1.3 resident just doesn't seem to be working. All suggestions appreciated. - Neil --==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-- Neil Weinstock @ AT&T Bell Labs // What was sliced bread att!edsel!nsw or nsw@edsel.att.com \X/ the greatest thing since?