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OS/2.1 uses wrong command.com in DOS session.

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From: Gary Messenbrink
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:40
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When attempting to run a DOS program on drive C: which has native
DOS 5.0 installed from an OS/2 session on drive D:, it appears
that the DOS 5.0 command.com program located in the C: root
directory rather than the command.com in D:\OS2\MDOS.  That is
the only reason that the message "Incorrect DOS version"
appears.

It also seems strange to me that when checking the settings
for D:\autoexec.bat that it's startup batch file is
D:\autoexec.bat.  When changing this setting to nothing and
attempting to start a full screen DOS session, the machine
immediately hung up with the (probably now infamous)
error at location ##060:fff60697 - 000d:9967.
60000, 9084

038600dl
Internal Revision 6.479, 92/12/09

Any attempt at using a different startup batch file for any
DOS session that has been tried so far has been a failure.

Disk is partitioned and loaded as follows:
	Boot Manager
	C:\	Primary (DOS 5.0 FAT)
	D:\	OS/2.1 Logical
	E:\	OS/2 Swapfile & Spooler and some APPS
	F:\	OS/2 CSET/2 beta tools
	...	(Logical drive free space)

Maybe some IBMer will be kind enough to send this on to the
appropriate OS/2 area.  I don't have the location of the 
current email address for IBM OS/2 problems.A

Anyone have any ideas on how to make a DOS program on drive C:
work properly from an OS/2.1 session?  I am running out of ideas.

	Thanks in advance,
	Gary
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