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- Subject: Re: DOS session from command line
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.193425.16926@midway.uchicago.edu>
- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 19:34:25 GMT
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- References: <diesel.83@odie.ee.wits.ac.za>
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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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.
- >I tried to post this before but I think somethink went wrong with my mailer.
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- You have to use a utility like STARTD (or several other alternatives),
- available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
-
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