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to: FRED BRUCKER
from: JORJ STRUMOLO
date: 1996-05-29 00:47:00
subject: shelling in 6.6b/c

FB> Please report your findings (good or bad) here in this conference.
 Shelling (or something) has changed from 6.6b to 6.6c.
 I put in a new command in 6.6b:
 {:sF3} {keys 1519}             Ctrl-Y to clear prompt box of last word
        {inpu wd,Check word?}   input a word
        {exec-nw1 WC %wd} {}    runs a word-checking alias on the input
 The 4DOS alias expands to "cd \Misc\Wordy^search ^cd -".
 Nothing earth-shaking.  Move to the directory, check if the word
 is usable in Scrabble, return to the original dir.  In 6.6b,
 this worked fine, and I'd get a flash of "aiglet found!" or not,
 as the case might be.  Now in my set-up, when a shell starts, a
 TSR critical error handler (4DOS24H2.COM) is installed.  When
 the shell's exited, it vanishes quietly.  Or at least it did
 under 6.6b. Under 6.6c, I get an accumulation of them.
  Name           Total       =   Conventional   +   Upper Memory
  --------  ----------------   ----------------   ----------------
  SYSTEM       4,189    (4K)    736,141  (719K)  4,294,230 (4193K)
  QEMM386        912    (1K)        912    (1K)          0    (0K)
  4DOS        13,568   (13K)      2,896    (3K)     10,672   (10K)
  4DOS24H2     2,464    (2K)          0    (0K)      2,464    (2K)
  4DOS24H2     2,464    (2K)          0    (0K)      2,464    (2K)
  4DOS24H2     2,464    (2K)          0    (0K)      2,464    (2K)
  4DOS24H2     2,464    (2K)          0    (0K)      2,464    (2K)
  ANSI         2,672    (3K)          0    (0K)      2,672    (3K)
  etc...
 It always installs a new copy the first time I use the macro in
 a Commo session.  It also installs (or, I suppose more properly
 put, somehow interferes with the uninstallation of) the handler
 on some, but not all, subsequent uses of the key.
 -- SPEED 2.00 #1019: A beautiful and ineffectual angel [Shelley]. * Arnold
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