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   7                                 Multi-Tasking MS-DOS
   8                                Beta Test Release 1.00
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  10                                    Command Guide
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  13             ARENA.EXE - Prints out arena assignments
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  15                  arena
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  17                       The system's  memory arena  is printed  out.   The
  18                       number listed  under the owner field is the PID of
  19                       the process which owns the memory.
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  22             BBSET.EXE - Set and report on behavior bits
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  24                  bbset [-o] [ {+|-}bitname ... ] fname ...
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  26                       BBSET sets or clears behavior bits in an .EXE file
  27                       header.   Multi-Tasking MS-DOS  uses the  behavior
  28                       bits   to   determine   the   level   of   special
  29                       compatibility   support    needed   to   run   the
  30                       application.
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  32                       BBSET will  set  (if  +bitname)  or  clear  (if  -
  33                       bitname)  the   named  behavior  bit(s)  from  the
  34                       specified files.   If  the -o switch is specified,
  35                       BBSET writes  a report  on the  current setting of
  36                       all the  defined behavior  bits  to  stdout  after
  37                       making the requested changes.
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  39                       For a  list of  behavior  bits  that  BBSET  knows
  40                       about, type BBSET without any arguments.
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  43             COUNTDOW.EXE - Count down a CPU loop
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  45                  countdown number
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  47                       Its argument  is a  number; it  counts the  number
  48                       down to 0, at about a 1hz rate.     It  prints out
  49                       the countdown.   Another  CPU  loop  program  like
  50                       TEXT, but  this  one  terminates  when  the  count
  51                       reaches 0
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  54             DETACH.EXE - Detaches a child process
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  56                  detach command [argument ...]
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  58                       The command  given is run as a background process.
  59                       Detach prints  out the  Command Subgroup ID (CSID)
  60                       which may  be used  as  an  argument  to  KILL  to
  61                       terminate the process.
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  73             HE_DAEM.EXE - Hard error catcher
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  75                  detach he_daem
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  77                       Intercepts hard  errors, reports them and requests
  78                       user action.   This  should always  be run  in the
  79                       background for now.  Put the above command line in
  80                       your AUTOEXEC.BAT  file if you're not going to use
  81                       the Session Manager (SM).
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  84             KILL.EXE - send a signal to a process
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  86                  kill [-nn] [sig=nn] [disp=mm] pid ...
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  88                       Sends signal  nn with  disposition mm to processes
  89                       mentioned in pid.  Defaults to SIGTERM and process
  90                       tree disposition.
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  93             POUND.EXE - Exercise disk I/O system
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  95                  pound [t]count filea fileb
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  97                       Pound reads  sequencially through filea and fileb,
  98                       reading 512  bytes at  a time  alternating between
  99                       the files  on each  read.  When the end of file is
 100                       read the  following read  for that  file begins at
 101                       the  beginning  of  the  file.    If  a  count  is
 102                       specified without  the preceeding  "t" then  pound
 103                       reads 512  bytes, count  number of times from each
 104                       file  before  the  program  terminates.    If  "t"
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 110             SLEEP.EXE - Sleep for a while
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 112                  sleep sec[.millisec]
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 114                       Sleep will  execute a  sleep system  call for  the
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 116                       This might  be useful  in batch files to pause for
 117                       an interval  as opposed  to  waiting  for  a  user
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 125                       Manages multiple  processes running  on  different
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 139                       program includes  the hard error catcher, so don't
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 144             TEXT.EXE - Loop and print text
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 146                  text argument
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