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From: tporczyk@na.excelan.com (Tony Porczyk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: How much space does 4DOS take?
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Date: 13 Feb 91 06:55:59 GMT
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In article <1991Feb12.172914.20377@oracle.com> schanin@oracle.com (Steven Chanin) writes:
>     4DOS sounds like a pretty cool shell, but before I go out and buy
>it, I was wondering if anyone knew how much conventional memory it
>takes up?  The reason I ask is that I'm doing Win3 development and

If you specify in the 4dos.opt file (very clearly explained in the docs),
4DOS command interpreter will *swap* itself out of memory either to
extended memory or to disk (as you prefer) when the applications need more
room. Can't beat that. I believe it leaves about 10K or so in memory
(don't remember exactly).
4DOS is really great. Could not go back to COMMAND.COM now.

Tony