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- From: ian@unipalm.co.uk (Ian Phillipps)
- Subject: Re: XCOPY in the background ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.155304.20935@unipalm.co.uk>
- Organization: Unipalm Ltd., 216 Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge CB4 4WA, UK
- References: <1993Jan21.141821.13561@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <1jn040INN95i@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> <1993Jan22.110539.20680@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <1993Jan22.195914.29737@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 15:53:04 GMT
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- jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jeff Urlwin) writes:
-
- >In article <1993Jan22.110539.20680@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> loescher@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Stephan Loescher) writes:
- >>In article <1jn040INN95i@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU>, villalj@xanth.CS.ORST.EDU (John Villalovos) writes:
- >>|> In article <1993Jan21.141821.13561@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> loescher@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Stephan Loescher) writes:
- >>|> >I'm looking for a possibility to run XCOPY, COPY, MOVE, or other DOS-programs
- >>|> >in the background (multitasking)
-
- >>|> Get OS/2.
-
- >>I do not have enough RAM ! (only 4 Megs)
- >>And I don't want to buy more!
-
- >You will find that OS/2 2.1 will run on a 4 meg machine fairly well. If
- >you're serious, monitor comp.os.os2.misc or contact me...I'll point you to
- >someone who's running it in 4MB.
-
- You could also get Desqview 386 (assuming you have a 386). Total memory
- overhead for this is about 200k, so it will run two full-size (640k)
- DOS shells comfortably in 2MB.
-
- Ian
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