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Article #898Re: .SYS Files
From: Andy Toy
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 1990 17:06
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 1990 17:06
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In article <168@evtprp0b.UUCP> tea6219@evtprp0b.UUCP (Terry E. Acker) writes:
>If I post a problem on the net, I would much rather get a great
>number of comments, some of which may be incorrect (because the person
>didn't have the time to verify it) to sort through, then get none at all!
Agreed, but in this case it was very simple to test whether or not it
worked. Adding the following lines to the config.sys would reveal that
only the last ``shell='' would be recognised:
shell=c:\dos\tree.com
shell=junk
shell=c:\dos\command.com c:\dos /p
You can only specify one top-level shell.
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Andy Toy, Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Internet: andy@mks.com
35 King Street North, Waterloo, UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!andy
Ontario, CANADA N2J 2W9 Phone: 519-884-2251 FAX: 519-884-8861
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cica!iuvax!maytag!mks.com!andy From: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer Subject: Re: .SYS Files Message-ID: <1990Jul9.170609.6640@mks.com> Date: 9 Jul 90 17:06:09 GMT References: <1990Jul2.010333.268@xrtll.uucp> <90184.125712JXS118@psuvm.psu.edu> <200@sc2a.unige.ch> <168@evtprp0b.UUCP> Reply-To: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy) Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Lines: 18