Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 16:03:41 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Martin Stromberg <Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se>
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Subject: Re: bash instead of COMMAND.COM: how I did it
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On 12 Feb 1998, Martin Stromberg wrote:

> 
> Well, do you want to know how to get rid of COMMAND.COM and use bash directly?
> 
> Here the answer, subjectively. Feedback is welcome.

Thanks for posting this.  With your permission, I would like to add this 
to the next release of the DJGPP FAQ list.

> This works, but some programs have problems. I haven't seen any trouble
> with GNU programs, but of two games I've tried, one lockup the computer 
> solid (Railroad Tycoon Deluxe) and one works but movie sequences looses 
> all sound and is speeded up (Lost in Time).

I'd guess that this happens because of conflicts between these programs 
and DPMI/CWSDPMI (which is always active while Bash runs).

Did you try to run COMMAND.COM from Bash and run these other programs 
from there?  (It might be that they assume COMMAND.COM is always present 
and use some of its features.)

> I don't know if this works with Win 3.1 or Win 4.0, as I haven't got'em.

You might see different effects, as Windows has its own DPMI server.