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From: pyt@hprnd.HP.COM (Pierre-Yves Thoulon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MKS Toolkit question
Message-ID: <1040012@hprnd.HP.COM>
Date: 30 Mar 89 19:32:54 GMT
References: <465@thor.wright.EDU>
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> Recently, I have read some discussions on the net concerning the 
> MKS Toolkit. As far as I know, there is a c-shell clone included in
> the kit.
It's actually a K-shell clone.

> My question is: Is it run on top of the COMMAND.COM or as
> a replacement?
As you like. I have thrown away COMMAND.COM and specified the MKS shell
in my config.sys.

> How much free RAM (out of 640K) would left after
> loading the shell (or anything else)?
On my system I get roughly 480K. I start some TSR's before my shell and
haven't really played enough with it to tell whether I could gain the
extra 30K you  need.
Note that the Toolkit offers an exec command that allows you to replace
the shell with the program you want to execute, instead of creating a
child. This might free up the memory you need. I haven't tried this
so I can't really tell.

Pyt.