Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!decwrl!deccrl!news.crl.dec.com!shlump.nac.dec.com!mast.enet.dec.com!reisert From: reisert@mast.enet.dec.com (Jim Reisert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: 4DOS any good to lower memory usage over command.com? Message-ID: <22230@shlump.nac.dec.com> Date: 21 Apr 91 06:44:31 GMT Sender: newsdaemon@shlump.nac.dec.com Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - Maynard, MA Lines: 35 In article , Glenn Sisson writes... > >I read that 4DOS is a command.com replacement and only occupies 5K of >conventional memory when you load other applications over it. Sounds >too good to be true. No it's not. Actually, 4DOS only takes .3K of conventional memory in my 386 using QEMM. The rest lives in expanded memory. >I tried to obtain 4DOS from SIMTEL20 via a mail message to >listserv@vm.ecs.rpi.edu (to answer these questions for myself), but >the package was not found (although it is listing in the latet >SIMTEL20 directory). Any other locations for picking up 4DOS? A new version was posted recently - 3.03. I don't remember all the file names, but I think they're in PD1: on SIMTEL20 as: 4DOS303P.ZIP programs 4DOS303D.ZIP documentation I just loaded the update to version 3.02a, so I didn't need the whole kit, and thus don't quite remember the names. You might try looking through the last week's worth of articles in comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d. - Jim (who feels *naked* without 4DOS!) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "The opinions expressed here in no way represent the views of Digital Equipment Corporation." James J. Reisert Internet: reisert@mast.enet.dec.com Digital Equipment Corp. UUCP: ...decwrl!mast.enet!reisert 146 Main Street Voice: 508-493-5747 Maynard, MA 01754 FAX: 508-493-????