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- From: xchen@staccato.rutgers.edu (Xinghao Chen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: three copies of command in memory
- Keywords: help wanted
- Message-ID: <Dec.24.01.05.34.1992.16303@staccato.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 06:05:34 GMT
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- I am new with PC. Recently my wife and I put together a 386/33
- compatible with 8MB RAM and 170MB HD. We have load MicroSoft DOS 5.0.
- When we used mem /c to check the drives in memory, we found three
- copies of COMMAND files with different sizes in the conventional memory.
- We tried loading the DOS with and without the option of STARTING
- DOSSHELL.
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- Without the option of STARTING DOSSHELL, there would be only one copy
- of COMMAND of 2.6KB in the conventional memory. With the option of
- STARTING DOSSHELL, there would be two copies of COMMAND files
- following the DOSSHELL file. One is of size 3.0KB and the next is of
- size 2.7KB.
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- Could someone out there give me some hints in terms of why there were
- three copies of the COMMAND files and why the DOSSHELL would bring in
- two copies of COMMAND file even though there were placed next to each
- other?
-
- Thank you and Marry Chrismas!
-
- -Chen xchen@caip.rutgers.edu
-
- PS: Please reply by email since I do not read this news group often.
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