knudsen@ihlpl.ATT.COM (Knudsen) (08/20/88)
One thing the original poster asked me was whether he could substitute his own favorite commands for some of the ones bundled in with Shell. Of course you can. Some of those commands are not commonly used but are needed on startup, and make booting faster. But anyway, you can put together any mix you want. Just keep it under 8192-512=7680 or $1e00 bytes. You can add up all the IDENT sizes or just use the DIR E report of module length (for object code modules, it's a pretty accurate measure of RAM space needed). And yes the Level 1 SAVE cmd is OK. I made up a 2nd bundle of commands called FAVES, and another called PATCHERS (debug, save, verify). Finally be careful about deleting bundled commands off your CMDS directory. It saves space, but DSAVE always wants to "LOAD COPY", so you have to have CMDS/COPY even tho it's already in RAM! I don't know of any other cmds like that, but be warned.