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In article <1992Jul19.162010.8233@qiclab.scn.rain.com> 70465.203@compuserve.com writes:
>
>As many users of 4dos (and other shels that take the place of
>COMMAND.COM could tell you, DOS 5.0's SYS takes *whatever* program
>is pointed to by the COMSPEC environment variable and copies it to
>the disk under the *name* COMMAND.COM! 
>
>Arguably, the copying could be considered the "correct" behavior, 
>and in that case, to boot without a CONFIG.SYS the renaming is
>necessary. But as some of these shells require overlay files and
>the like, this is *not* a good idea.
>
>I'd suggest that in the next version or revision, SYS should check
>and if the command processor *isn't* COMMAND.COM, it should prompt
>the user and ask if he wants <filename> copied to the disk. If not,
>then have it ask him for the path to COMMAND.COM and copy that.
>
>Trust me, this *has* resulted in very puzzled users with non-bootable
>disks!
>
I'd suggest that in the next revision of these shells requiring overlays,
they prompt user for the pass of overlay files instead of crashing. Or
better put all overlays in one file, as plain Microsoft LINK does.

						Oleg Kibirev