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Article #8205Command.com is NOT invalid or missing
From: Richard Stanton
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1989 09:04
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1989 09:04
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Every so often, my machine comes up with the following message upon exiting from a program: Invalid or missing COMMAND.COM System halting or words to that effect. The system then hangs, and I have to reboot. My current machine is an Epson Equity II+. The same thing used to happen much more frequently on my previous machine, a no name clone, until I took it back. My COMMAND.COM is fine. I have a correctly specified SHELL= line in my CONFIG.SYS file, and a correctly specified SET COMSPEC= line in my AUTOEXEC.BAT file. What is happening? My only thought was that it might have something to do with reloading the high memory portion of COMMAND.COM after running a memory hogging program, but my brain stopped at this point. Have other people had the same experience, and / or does anybody know the cause of this not too reassuring symptom? Thanks Richard Stanton pstanton@gsb-what.stanford.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!decwrl!shelby!lindy!news From: LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Command.com is NOT invalid or missing Message-ID: <6305@lindy.Stanford.EDU> Date: 7 Dec 89 09:04:19 GMT Sender: news@lindy.Stanford.EDU (News Service) Lines: 29