First post, by eddman
By default, when DOS=NOAUTO is not used, the SYSTEM memory usage is 12 KB (first entry shown with the MEM/C command). However, this has the side effect of loading DBLBUFF.SYS and IFSHLP.SYS.
When DOS=NOAUTO is used, SYSTEM usage increases to 17 KB.
It doesn't seem to be a memory space issue, since the largest free upper block is 73 KB.
It seems the following commands are used under DOS 6.x for that purpose, but they have no effect for me. All they do is to load a second instance of COMMAND.COM.
[code]CONFIG.SYS
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SHELL=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /C LOADHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:512 /P
or
SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /C LOADHIGH=C:\COMMAND.COM /E:512 /P[/code]
[code]AUTOEXEC.BAT
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SET COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM
or
SET COMSPEC=C:\COMMAND.COM[/code]
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EDIT: Those commands are unrelated to this issue. More info in my post below.
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Full settings are as follows. I've set BootGUI=0.
CONFIG.SYS
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DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS RAM I=B400-B7FF I=CA00-EFFF Frame=E000
DOS=HIGH,UMB,NOAUTO
FILESHIGH=35
BUFFERSHIGH=60,2
LASTDRIVE=G
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\VIDECDD.SYS /D:OPTICAL
SHELL=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /C LOADHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:512 /P
AUTOEXEC.BAT
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SET PROMPT=$p$g
SET PATH=C:\;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H5 P330 T6
SET COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM
LH C:\DOS\MOUSE.COM /p4
LH MSCDEX.EXE /D:OPTICAL /E
LH DOSKEY