Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!bu.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ra!jpl1 From: jpl1@ra.MsState.Edu (Gamma-Ray) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: MS-DOS 3.30A and "SHELL=" in CONFIG.SYS (SLOWness) Message-ID: Date: 1 Nov 90 04:12:18 GMT References: <1990Oct12.224956.21168@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Lines: 11 I will have to try omitting my shell statement. Hoever, i change my environment thru 4dos. If you haven't tried it it is an interesting change from straight command.com. Nice aliases, cmdline editing, extra dos cmds such as move (i.e. copy and del in one move), online help for all 4dos and dos cmds. WHILE i'm giving my few tips; you must try the print cacher PCACHE 2.2. It is absolutely the best. NO conflicts. And I also love the new norton 5.0 disk cacher NCACHE-F. It is incredible. If you write a large file to a 1.2 meg floppy, it returns the C> prompt immediately and keeps writing to the floppy in the background. If you then give a read floppy cmd while it is writing to the floppy, it suspends the write, dooes the read, and resumes the write later. neat.