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Article #2056Re: 4DOS COMSPEC Question
From: David J. Birnbaum
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 1990 12:50
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 1990 12:50
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In article <3683@crash.cts.com> garyb@pro-graphics.cts.com (Gary Botnovcan) writes:
>In-Reply-To: message from sos@psc90.UUCP
>
>Of course, those programs that explicitly load COMMAND.COM don't load
>4DOS, even if you want them to, unless you hack them (search for the string
>COMMAND.COM and replace it with 4DOS.COM, being very careful to match format
>with the original.
You can rename 4dos.com to 'command.com' to trick programs that
blindly load command.com instead of checking comspec. If you have a real
command.com on your disk, be sure that the renamed 4dos.com precedes it in
your path.
A nuisance, but easier than hacking each application.
--David
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!wuarchive!husc6!wjh12!djb From: djb@wjh12.harvard.edu (David J. Birnbaum) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: 4DOS COMSPEC Question Message-ID: <525@wjh12.harvard.edu> Date: 26 Jul 90 12:50:37 GMT References: <3683@crash.cts.com> Reply-To: djb@wjh12.UUCP (David J. Birnbaum) Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge MA Lines: 22