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IBM Command Lines
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These command line arguments are available with the IBM/MSDOS
ZIP interpreter, versions 'L' and up, and all EZIP versions.
The first four are listed in the reference card; the last two
are undocumented.
; /P INITIALIZE PRINTER THROUGH INT 17
; /M MONOCHROME
; /C COLOR
; /W WINDOWED SCROLLING
; /K<n> AMOUNT OF MEMORY TO USE IN KBYTES
; /G<gamefile.ext> RUN THE GAME FILE SPECIFIED
/K is used to limit the amount of memory used by the game,
which normally takes as much as it can get (up to the size of the data
file). The frequency of disk accesses (never in the case of full
preload) increases as memory is reduced.
For example, Zork1 normally uses around 85K but can be run
with as little as /K25. Specifying less than 25K causes a "not enough
memory" error message.
/G makes the interpreter use a different data file. For example,
ZORK1.EXE normally runs ZORK1.DAT, but can in general run any other
ZIP game.