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Re: DOS 5.0 w/4Dos

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From: John W. Horigan
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 06:57
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In article <16648@davidsys.com> douglass@davidsys.com (JEFF (PC) DOUGLASS) writes:
>
>Ok, so now we have this new slick DOS 5.0.
>Now we "Don't need QEMM" to load drivers and TSRs high.
>
>Well, I've just gotten a trial copy of 4Dos v3.02(looks good!),
>but the DOS 5.0 loadhigh is internal to COMMAND.COM!
>
>So this means what, boot DOS w/Command, have AUTOEXEC loadhigh
>all the TSRs and then run 4Dos?
>Seems like a waste of RAM, but I may have missed something.

What I did was boot up with 4DOS and have a line in my AUTOEXEC
file that called COMMAND.COM with a batch file to load the TSRs:

C:\COMMAND.COM /C LOADTSRS.BAT

You can use the DOS5 LOADHIGH command in LOADTSRS.BAT since it's
read by COMMAND.COM.  This works for me.

>-- 
>Jeff (Douglass@DavidSys.Com)  David Systems, Sunnyvale CA,(408)720-8000
>    "Never count on the inevitable until it happens. . ."

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John Horigan      jhorigan@cook.berkeley.edu
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From: jhorigan@cook.berkeley.edu (John W. Horigan)
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Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 w/4Dos
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