From: Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Can I try BASH?
Date: 8 Jul 1998 14:39:20 GMT
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Ralph Proctor (ralphgpr AT shadow DOT net) wrote:
: At 10:40 PM 7/7/98 -0230, you wrote:
:
: >...........or use it as your shell instead of COMMAND.COM.
: >
: >//\\ Chris Fifield          | ubd2011 AT infonet DOT st-johns DOT nf DOT ca
: >\\// St. John's, NF, Canada | (709) 364-2811
:
: Now this is a clever idea. For years I've reading about substitutes for
: COMMAND.COM, but never had
: the guts to try one. I hope this is in the docs.

Well, as one who did it, I can say that it's not as clever as it
seems. Although bash is much better than COMMAND.COM, it bigger, so 
your games that need more than 600K of conventional memory, won't
run. Also some programs need COMMAND.COM as the shell (for some
unknown reason). If I remember correctly one of those is Lost in Time;
it hang the machine _totally_ - red button time.

If your interested in how to do it do a search in the djgpp mail
archives of (at <http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/mail-archives/>) for
'+bash +shell +login +martin' for a description of how to do.


Silence,

							MartinS