Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!eecae!netnews.upenn.edu!lfk From: lfk@mbio.med.upenn.edu (Lee Kolakowski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: MKS Toolkit question Message-ID: Date: 30 Mar 89 13:48:39 GMT References: <465@thor.wright.EDU> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Distribution: usa Organization: University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Chemistry Lines: 61 In-reply-to: cnee@wright.EDU's message of 29 Mar 89 21:56:40 GMT In article <465@thor.wright.EDU> cnee@wright.EDU (Cheng-Lee Nee) writes: > As far as I know, there is a c-shell clone included in > the kit. No, not a c-shell (csh) clone, but a korn shell look-alike. > My question is: Is it run on top of the COMMAND.COM or as > a replacement? You have choices here. you can run a program called init which spawns a ksh for your login, or use the shell as your boot shell, or run it on top of command.com. > How much free RAM (out of 640K) would left after > loading the shell (or anything else)? Here is the output of my system's ps command (process status) Size is the size of memory in paragraphs $ ps PID PPID SIZE DS Command 205c 9ded 0268 21b9 ? <-- Init and device drivers 22c5 205c 0001 22c7 FREE 0001 22c9 2654 0004 22ce 205c 0385 274b ? /D:PRN /Q:32 /B:8000 <--- MSDOS print 2654 205c 0186 2654 c:/usr/bin/spool.com <--- A dumb little spooler 27db FREE 0002 27de 205c 0810 27ee c:/bin/ksh.exe -R 0 <--- korn shell (this version 2fef 301d 002d loads the text segment 301d 27de 029b 31ae c:/bin/ps.exe high in memory and reloads 32b9 FREE 6d3c <--\ when needed) 9ff6 27de 000a \---------- Free memory $ mem mem: 498592 bytes free out of 655360 bytes $ cat /config.sys buffers=30 # Uncomment this next line if you want TEK 4010 files=20 # device driver installed break=on # device=\dev\plot.dev -g0 -c0 -p0 -v0 -t0 -d0 -s1 stacks=0,0 # device=\dev\himem.sys -hmamin=0 # device=\dev\fconsole.dev -l=1 -g=400 -s=5000 -q=1 -r=100 device=\dev\edvr.sys # device=\dev\ramdriver.sys 384 1024 400 /e shell=C:\etc\init.exe I can get as much as 590 K free memory without the spoolers and without fasni-console. -- Frank Kolakowski ____________________________________________________________________________ |lfk@mbio.med.upenn.edu || Lee F. Kolakowski | |kolakowski@mscf.med.upenn. || Univ. of Penna. | |c/o jes@eniac.seas.upenn.edu || Dept of Chemistry | |kolakowski%c.chem.upenn.edu@relay.upenn.edu || 231 South 34th St. | |kolakowski%d.chem.upenn.edu@relay.upenn.edu || Phila, PA 19104 | |bcooperman.kolakowski@bionet-20.arpa ||--------------------------| |AT&T: 1-215-898-2927 || One-Liner Here! | =============================================================================