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From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PC-NFS versus MKS Shell, continued
Message-ID: <30@dcs.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 88 13:15:44 GMT
References: <3144@tekgvs.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
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Organization: DCS, Dallas, Texas
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In article <3144@tekgvs.TEK.COM> keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson) writes:
>The way it seems to me that it should be set up is to have the
>"device=" entries in the config.sys should stay there (where else
>could they go?). The "net..." commands in the autoexec.bat file need
>to be distributed to two separate places: the network start-up entries
>go into /etc/rc.ksh, and the "net use..." entries go into my
>$HOME/profile.ksh. Well, there is no joy in network-ville, mighty
>keithe has struck out. Many times.
>
>What happens is that the systems runs out, or thinks it runs out, of
>memory (did I mention that I have a full 640 k? Plus more in extended
>if needed/useable). Before the message from /etc/issue appears I get

I encountered the same problem when using the Toolkit with memory resident
stuff, and although I never could get it to work the way the manual says, 
here is how I fixed it:

Put the line

	shell=command.com /Exxxx /C c:\etc\boot.bat

into config.sys. This will set the environment to a larger size, and then
run command.com invoking the boot.bat script.

All of your TSR's (like your nfs programs) should be started from that
file, with 

	c:\etc\init c:/bin/login

as the last line. Since INIT never exits, you never exit into command.com
either, and except for the extra memory required by that copy of command.com,
the look and feel is exactly the same as if you had run init from config.sys.

BTW, I don't think MKS Toolkit has any way of using AT extended or EMS expanded
memory - the Toolkit progs are just ordinary DOS progs and no nothing about
memory above 640K. The only use would be as a RAM disk.

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