Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!agate!stew.ssl.berkeley.edu!korpela From: korpela@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (Eric J. Korpela) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: 4Dos under win3 Keywords: prompt, stack size, blah, blah Message-ID: <1990Sep20.182347.27912@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 20 Sep 90 18:23:47 GMT References: <1990Sep19.215030.27508@tc.fluke.COM> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Organization: Cal Berkeley-- Space Sciences Lab Lines: 22 In article <1990Sep19.215030.27508@tc.fluke.COM> joshua@fluke.tc.fluke.com (Jb) writes: > Now, I'm wondering how 4-Dos works under windows 3 and if there is any >changes to the command line that need to be made? After fixing the stack >problem, I realized that it was just after "trying" 4Dos that the problem >occurred...not to say that it wa the cause :-). 4Dos 3.01a seems to work just fine for me under windows 3.0. If you are using it as your primary shell outside of windows it doesn't seem to work unless you set it up to swap to disk rather than XMS. (XMS swapping works fine for secondary shells started from windows.) I'd guess there is something slightly strange about how 4Dos interacts with HIMEM.SYS. (Strange in this context is defined by Microsoft. I guess they know strange. They practically invented it.) If I try to start the primary shell with XMS swapping Windows will hang when I start a 4Dos process. /\ korpela@sunspot.ssl.berkeley.edu Internet /__\ rioch BKYAST::KORPELA 42215::KORPELA DecNet / \ of Chaos korpela%bkyast@ucbjade Bitnet (_____________________