From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Question about DJGPP for DOS
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Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:11:23 GMT
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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On Sun, 2 Apr 2000 06:08:39 +0600 (LKT), Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel
<kalum AT lintux DOT cx> wrote:

>On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, james archer wrote:
>
>> I went to delorie and downloaded the zip that has the progs for
>> letting me run it, but in order to use those, I have to run them
>> before running my executable. This means that I can't run my
>> executable as a shell because I have to start command.com and
>> run this other program first.
>
>This may not be necessary. When a djgpp program is run, it automatically
>loads cwsdpmi.exe if DPMI services are not present.
>
>So merely specifying "SHELL=C:\DJSHELL.EXE" should be enough.

So you're saying it would be all right to do this:
  SHELL=C:\DJGPP\bin\bash.exe

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