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- From: buhr@umanitoba.ca (Kevin Andrew Buhr)
- Subject: Re: DOS session from command line
- In-Reply-To: diesel@odie.ee.wits.ac.za's message of 21 Dec 92 18:29:37 GMT
- Message-ID: <BUHR.92Dec21164132@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
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- Organization: University of Manitoba, Canada
- References: <diesel.83@odie.ee.wits.ac.za>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:41:32 GMT
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- In article <diesel.83@odie.ee.wits.ac.za> diesel@odie.ee.wits.ac.za
- (Bruce Diesel ) writes:
- |
- | I've got a query on behalf of my brother who would like to know how to how
- | to start a minimal dos session from the OS/2 command line so that the DOS
- | session does not pick up the config.sys defaults - i.e. he wants to start a
- | couple of DOS sessions with only 640k and no EMS or XMS memory allocated to
- | them.
-
- It's great posting to this board, because almost all the questions
- have the same answer. ;)
-
- The "STARTD" utility, available via anonymous FTP from
- "ftp-os2.nmsu.edu:/pub/os2/2.0/sysutils/startd.zip" will do what you
- want. It allows you to type something like:
-
- STARTD /DOS /WIN /SF noems.set
-
- where the "noems.set" file contains a line like:
-
- EMS_MEMORY_LIMIT=0
-
- Neat, eh? The utility also allows fullscreen or windowed sessions.
- It allows DOS sessions to be started in the background, and it allows
- you to associate an icon file with the program (when it's minimized).
- In short, it's an OS/2 requirement.
-
- Kevin <buhr@ccu.UManitoba.CA>
-