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From: toma@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: How much space does 4DOS take?
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Date: 15 Feb 91 23:17:38 GMT
References: <1991Feb13.030916.10963@novell.com>
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In article <1991Feb13.030916.10963@novell.com> tporczyk@na.excelan.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:

>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

Better than that. If you have an XMS driver and free upper memory, then it
will take *256 bytes*. Otherwise it takes about 3k.

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Tom Almy
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