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- The main documentation for GET is currently included with Version 2.5
- Version 2.6 supplementary documentation is in GET26NEW.DOC.
-
- Because of its large size, GET.DOC, the file containing the 70 page
- manual for GET Version 2.5 may be compressed in the archive file
- GETDOC.COM. Uncompress GETDOC.COM by executing it on a hard drive or on
- another diskette with more room.
-
- If you want to print the documentation yourself, note that it is
- formatted for printing on a laser printer using Vern Buerg's LJBOOK
- laser jet printing utility. This will print 4 pages on one sheet of
- paper front and back. If you do not have a laser printer or do not
- use LJBOOK, it is suggested that you set your printer for 8 lines per
- inch and reduce the font point size if possible.
-
- EXTRA INFORMATION FOR USERS OF SHELLS:
-
- If you get "Out of environment space" when you try to use GET read the
- following.
-
- One recurring reason for this problem is running the BATch file from a
- so-called "shell" - PC Shell, Norton Commander, Xtree, etc. etc. etc..
- When you run a BATch file from a shell, it invokes a second copy of
- COMMAND.COM (a true shell), but DOS is stingy with the environment
- space it passes to a "child" program such as this second copy of
- COMMAND.COM. There are a couple of solutions - if this is, in fact,
- the problem.
-
- 1. If you can get your shell to run your BATch file with the command
- C:\COMMAND.COM /E:512 /Cyourbat
- then you can specify how much environment space you want with the
- /E:nnn parameter. Of course put in the real name and location of your
- command processor where I have put C:\COMMAND.COM.
-
- 2. In your autoexec set a large dummy variable in your Environment
- with the SET command, such as SET DUMMY=a large variable here but make
- it longer. Then when you run a BATch file from a shell, make the
- first statement in the BATch file SET DUMMY= and it will clear up the
- space for use by GET.
-
- 3. Use 4DOS or NDOS for your command processor instead of COMMAND.COM.
- 4DOS and its alter-ego NDOS allow you to specify how much free
- environment space you want for child processes. Only 4DOS does it the
- way it should be done. MS never has handled the Environment space
- problem very well.
-
- I try to address the "Out of environment space" problem in several
- sections of the manual on disk, but it is difficult to cover all
- cases. I also include an entire Appendix on the subject in the
- printed manual, but due to space considerations don't include it on
- the shareware distributed version.
-