Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 08:54:21 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: sime AT fly DOT cc DOT etf DOT hr
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Install bash as DOS 6.22 shell
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On 3 Dec 1996, S. Mikecin wrote:

> Weiqi Gao (weiqigao AT crl DOT com) wrote:
> : But the SHELL=D:\USR\BIN\BASH.EXE line is executed after CONFIG.SYS is done
> : and right before AUTOEXEC.BAT is started.  It is at that point that
> : BASH.EXE cannot be started, and COMMAND.COM is called upon to provide the
> : shell service.  As was pointed out in previous posts in the thread, this is
> : because bash.exe doesn't comply with the 'DOS Shell Specification'
> : (whatever that is).
> 
> Couldn't it be loaded if it uses PMODE/DJ?

Even if it could, this is not recommended, since it means that you cannot 
have virtual memory in every other DJGPP program that you invoke from 
that BASH.  I think that if PMODE is already active, DJGPP programs 
invoked from BASH will not load CWSDPMI, but use PMODE as the DPMI host, 
and it doesn't support VM.