Re: EXEC'ing command.com /p

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From: Einar Indridason
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 1990 23:44

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In article <3-D^-&%@rpi.edu> joefritz@pawl.rpi.edu (Jochen M. Fritz) writes:
>
>I have been unsucessful in spawning a copy of comand.com that reads the 
>autoexec.bat file.  The shell starts up prompts for the date+time  (same 
>as if it couldn't find an autoexec, then refuses to exit (the other effect 
>of /p)  I have tried entering command /p from both command.com and  mssh,
>and they did read the autoexec.bat file.  For some reason, it only refuses
>to do so for my programs.  What am I doing wrong?
>

/p should be /P
(upper case)


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From: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: EXEC'ing command.com /p
Keywords: command.com, DOS, EXEC
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Date: 11 Dec 90 23:44:30 GMT
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