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Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 22:31:46 -0400
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Leonard Erickson writes:

> Well, 4dos is more versatile than command.com and 
> has a *smaller* footprint in conventional RAM as 
> long as you have extended or expanded RAM available. 

I'm sure Eric Meyer was referring to typical file management 
applications as "big awkward shells" and not 4dos which is not 
at all awkward in comparison to command.com or his 
file/directory utilities.

4dos is *big* at 4 times the size of command.com.

I routinely ran a .bat file that loaded a 32k tsr and a 64k 
transient in a DV/X window, but had to allocate an additional 
240k of conventional memory for 4dos to waddle in and load them. 
Plus 4dos required another 64k of EMS to lurk about in waiting 
for it's "exit" cue to close the window. I gave that job to 
command.com, which did it faster as well. Nothing against 4dos, 
as in starting DV/X it set an environment variable for 
command.com to use.

-- Gary Welles