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From: hants@hp-sdd.UUCP (Hants White)
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Subject: Re: Help Wanted (Please!)
Message-ID: <352@hp-sdd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 31-Jul-86 16:12:20 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 31 16:12:20 1986
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In article <239@curly.ucla-cs.ARPA> stiber@zeus.UUCP (Michael D Stiber) writes:
>
>I have two questions that I hope someone can/will answer:
>
>1) I have increased the environment size using the CONFIG.SYS command
>   SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /e:32
>   Now, AUTOEXEC.BAT doesn't run automatically.  Is there a way to fix
>   this?
>
>2) I would like to convert an assembly language .COM program that
>   terminates and stays resident (using INT 27H) into a C (.EXE)
>   program.  This would require use of function call 31H (Terminate
>   Process and Remain Resident).  How can my program determine the
>   number of paragraphs of memory that it requires.
>
>I'd really appreciate any help that anyone can give me.  Thanks!
>


I can only help you with the first question. The line in your CONFIG.SYS
file needs to be

      SHELL=d:\COMMAND.COM /P /E:62

The '/P' parameter tells COMMAND.COM to stay resident... as you have it
now, if you type exit at the command line, the computer will lock up
because it will not have a command interpreter.

For fun, you might also try the '/D' parameter.  It tells command.com not
to execute AUTOEXEC.BAT when it boots.  (Try it as a joke on someone
else's machine...the, most likely, will not be able to figure out why 
their autoexec file is not autoexec'ing.)

Hants