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Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 13:37:10 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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To: Ralph Proctor <ralphgpr AT shadow DOT net>
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com, Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se
Subject: Re: Conv. mem with BASH shell
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Ralph Proctor wrote:
> 
> Anybody operating with BASH as a shell and no command.com, please advise me--
> 
> I have a good configuration where I can work DGJPP and just about any other
> DOS
> application I have tried under BASH as a shell without command.com--thanks
> to help
> from Martin Stromberg.
> 
> go32-v2 shows
> DPMI memory available: 8363 Kb
> DPMI swap space available: 129317 Kb
> 
> XMS and EMS memory available is good.
> 
> What looks low to me is the free conventional memory--it is 517 Kb.

Well, there's BASH's transfer buffer, and CWSDPMI, and probably a few
other things, so that's probably about right.

> Is this anything to worry about? I see no problems yet.

If there's a problem, you will know.  "Out of memory" by a DOS app.

> I can free up 3 Kb by setting stacks=0,0 but nowadays they say we need
> 9,256 so
> I've had it that way since I got on the Internet.
> 
> If anybody using BASH as a shell without command.com has higher conv. mem than
> this and has any tips I'd appreciate your comments. Or maybe I have nothing
> to fear
> (I'm not going to run any flight simulators or anything like that)--I just
> want to work with
> a UNIX simulation and program in C and test my work and go as far as I can
> with the
> UNIX way with a 486.

If you want Linux, I can tell you where to find it. ;-)
-- 

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com