🚀 go-pugleaf

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I have not been around for a couple of weeks, so this comes a little late
after the postings regarding fixup of DOS environment size. There was an
error in one of the postings:

shell = c:\command.com c:\ /p /e:20

One of the articles described the string "c:\" as indicating where the
autoexec.bat file is found. This is not the case, it is where the command.com
file is to be found for reloading any time it is necessary. For many people
the above command line will be correct, since the location of both will
be coincidentally the same. Any of us poor souls using a pre-xt standard
controller board (and consequently booting off a floppy) get errors when
doing it as described in the original article. My config.sys says:

shell = c:\bin\command.com c:\bin /p /e:20

and autoexec.bat MUST be located in a:\ (so does config.sys, incidentally,
but I put mouse.sys, vdisk.sys, etc.sys in c:\sys). Note that in any
conceivable situation I have imagined, the second path must be the
the same as the first path to command.com. I am curiouser and curiouser
why the option is there.