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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 16:36:49 +0100
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On 12 Mar 97 (at 19:08) Colin W. Glenn became famous by saying:

> > So, you mean like a 'proxy' command.com to uppercase the env and load up
> > the original one? This might be quite hard with some advanced features of
> > OD...
> 
> How so?  The only potential problem I see is that the stack is undefined
> upon entry into the command processor, but seeing as you MUST define it as
> the permanent command shell, you never have to worry about exiting to an
> unknow machine state.  Them who forget to add the /p switch will need to be
And what about loading the command.com high? If the feature is enabled, then 
what gets loaded high is the proxy and not the real shell. Also DOS kernel 
does some magic when starting up a shell - dunno what exactly (yet), but I'm 
sure that not every program may be a shell (hint: set win.com as the shell)

> > > Uh-huh, and not willing to sacrifice the work, loaded debug and wrote
> > > the entire memory to disk to pluck through later.  PAIN.
> > ;-)So you've just invented a coredump for DOS! ;-)
> 
> Only problem was, couldn't get debug to dump more that 65536 bytes at a
> time, gee, I wonder why?
Yeah, interesting... ;-)

> Wishlist!  Coredump for OpenDOS!  Plus Full Memory Dump.  (warn those
> with multimegabyte machines about having enough free disk space before
> blowing in this command though;)
Wow! 64 MB coredump!!

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