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- From: stevem@hpdml90.boi.hp.com (Steve Messinger)
- Subject: install NETX in CONFIG.SYS ??
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- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 22:02:05 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Boise, Idaho
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- Does anyone know if there is a way to install NETX (or EMSNETX, or
- XMSNETX) in CONFIG.SYS instead of later (AUTOEXEC.BAT, or whatever)
- for a DOS workstation??
-
- I have been playing with a DOS shell program other than COMMAND.COM
- which tries to swap itself out of conventional memory when it runs
- programs. When it swaps back, however, it destroys any tsr's
- (such as NETX) that may have been loaded. Therefore it is necessary
- to either (1) start up COMMAND.COM first, install NETX and then
- run the new shell, or else (2) find a way to install NETX from
- CONFIG.SYS before the any shell starts executing.
-
- The first option (COMMAND.COM, NETX then shell) works fine, but it
- wastes memory space. The second option sounds better, but I can't
- find a way to successfully install NETX in CONFIG.SYS.
-
- Alternatively, does anyone know of a public-domain alternative to
- NETX that would do what I'm looking for ??
-
- Thanks!
- Steve M.
-
- P.S. The shell I'm looking at is Ian Stewartson's port of the
- Unix Korn shell to DOS, referred to in the Free Software
- Foundation's GNUish project. Much of the GNUish software
- is available at 'prep.ai.mit.edu' in 'pub/gnu/MicrosPorts',
- but I got version 2.0 of sh.exe from 'wuarchive.wust.edu'
- in 'mirrors/msdos/sysutl/ms_sh200.zip'.
-
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- Steve Messinger Hewlett-Packard Disk Memory Division
- stevem@hpdml90.boi.hp.com Boise, Idaho (USA)
-