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Article #43717Re: Environment problems
From: Bob Weissman
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 1990 17:56
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 1990 17:56
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In article <8377@lindy.Stanford.EDU>, LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:
> In your CONFIG.SYS file, put the line:
>
> SHELL=c:\command.com /p /E:2048
>
> or similar, where you should use the correct path for your system,
> (note that if it is not in the root directory, DOS will set COMSPEC
> to the correct disk, but not to the right path, so you may have to
> set this manually).
If you give COMMAND an argument consisting of a drive and directory,
COMSPEC gets set correctly. So the above line should read:
SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /P /E:2048
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken!ames!sgi!omni!bob From: bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Environment problems Summary: COMMAND.COM takes an argument Message-ID: <1848@borabora.omni.com> Date: 8 Mar 90 17:56:40 GMT References: <8377@lindy.Stanford.EDU> Distribution: usa Organization: OMNI Solutions, Mountain View, CA Lines: 20