Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!ogicse!milton!sumax!halcyon!ralphs From: halcyon!ralphs@seattleu.edu (Ralph Sims) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: 4DOS any good to lower memory usage over command.com? Message-ID: Date: 21 Apr 91 14:13:22 GMT References: Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service Lines: 26 gsisson@beowulf.ucsd.edu (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. I renamed 4DOS.COM to command.com and the kernel is only 256 bytes when it is swapped out. With a CGA monitor and a LOT of things loaded in high memory, I have 689K free for DOS. > What I want to do is replace command.com which I load before I run > DesqView. Will 4DOS do this and save me memory, yet still support dos > system calls for applications? I do this on a 386/25 with 8 megs of RAM, running a mail/news site with a full feed and cron as a background task. > SIMTEL20 directory). Any other locations for picking up 4DOS? You can download it from here. It's in /public/4dos. Or I can email it to you. -- halcyon!ralphs@seattleu.edu The 23:00 News and Mail Service - +1 206 292 9048 - Seattle, WA USA +++ A Waffle Iron, Model 1.64 +++