Re: ramdrives, 4dos, stacker, and swapping -- HELP!!!

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From: Geoffrey M Fritz
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 03:12

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In article <1992Dec17.123720.18350@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> schoof@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Jochen "Joscho" Schoof) writes:
>Geoffrey M Fritz (gfritz@ford.ecn.purdue.edu) wrote:
>: 
>: Is there ANY way to run external commands from my config.sys file?  There
>: must be some utility program out there that can do this...
>: 
>I'm not quite sure and don't have a chance to test, but how about 
>the INSTALL-command in CONFIG.SYS frequently used to start some
>TSRs from there? I recommend you take a look at your documentation
>whether it only handles TSRs or even 'normal' programs. If so, it
>should solve your problem (I hope ... ;-I)

Yes I tried this (thanks to the help of a personal reply), and it worked.  I
don't now why I forgot about it since I used it a year or so ago to solve
another strange problem.  Thanks again.

-- gfritz
>
>- Jochen
>
>
>--
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Jochen Schoof                      schoof@dec5.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
>Lehrstuhl f. Informatik II +-----------------------------------------------
>Universitaet Wuerzburg     | It's worse than that: he's dead, Jim!  -Bones
>---------------------------+-----------------------------------------------

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Subject: Re: ramdrives, 4dos, stacker, and swapping -- HELP!!!
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