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Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 21:59:04 -0800
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
From: Paul Wittry <ppw3 AT premier1 DOT net>
Subject: SHELLHIGH SIZE=???? ( Re: 7.02 bugs and problems)
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At 00:05 2/14/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
<(SNIP)>
>
>For DR-DOS 7.02 a solution is to use the new SHELLHIGH= directive 
>instead of the traditional SHELL=. The difference between SHELL=
>and SHELLHIGH= is that the later accepts an additional SIZE= parameter
>(hex) for the amount of memory to be reserved for COMMAND.COM in the
>HMA. Note, that to load COMMAND.COM into the HMA you still have to 
>provide the /MH option, SHELLHIGH= does NOT do this my itself e.g.
>
>replace 
>
>SHELL=c:\opendos\command.com c:\opendos\ /MH /P
>
>by
>
>SHELLHIGH SIZE=xxxx c:\opendos\command.com c:\opendos\ /MH /P
>
>whereby 
>
>SIZE= shall be something between 1000 and 2000 hex here (Sorry, 
>I don't know the optimal value right now, so one should iterate
>this value to the lowest possible value). To high values will
>prohibit other parts of the system to be loaded in the HMA or
>at least causing unnecessary HMA fragmentation. If COMMAND.COM 
>is not loaded into the HMA (e.g. when using 4DOS instead), it 
>is a good idea to set SIZE=20 (the minimum). This will cause
>larger contineous chunks of HMA memory to be provided for usage 
>by other HMA clients like for example ANSIPLUS.
>
>Matthias
>
Hello All,

Does anyone know what value is optimal for 
SHELLHIGH SIZE=????. . .? Any help would
be greatly appreciated.

TIA,
Paul


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