Category : Tutorials + Patches
Archive   : STAKSHEL.ZIP
Filename : STKSHLL.JMD

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12/05/87
NOTES ON STACKS, SHELL AND ENVIRONMENT.
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STACKS: As found in appendix B-1 in DOS 3.2 manual

COMMAND

PURPOSE: Allows you to overide the default stack resources.

FORMAT: STACKS=n,s


REMARKS: n is the number of stack frames. The default number
of stack frames is 9. The range of values for n is
from 8 to 64.

s is the size (in bytes) of each stack frame. The
default size of each frame is 128 bytes. The range
of values for s is from 32 to 512.


NOTE: Increasing stack resources reduces
available memory. It is advised
that you increase the number of
stacks first when trying to alleviate
the stack error condition.


Each time a hardware interrupt occurs, DOS allocates one
frame from the stack pool. After the interrupt has been
processed, DOS returns the frame to the stack pool.SHELL



SHELL
COMMAND


FORMAT: SHELL=COMMAND.COM /E:xxxx /P



PURPOSE: Allows you specify the name and location of a top
level command processor that DOS initialization
loads in place of COMMAND.COM.


PARAMETERES:
/E:xxxx specifies base 10 integer and indicates
the number of bytes to set the environment size.
This number must be in the range of 160 to 32768.

/P causes COMMAND.COM to execute AUTOEXEC.BAT
once it gets installed.


put it this way in your CONFIG.SYS
SHELL= COMMAND.COM /E:512 /P without
the /P AUTOEXEC.BAT will not execute.

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