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From: aland@infmx.UUCP (Dr. Scump)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: update: re: pathlength, environment space
Summary: still lookin'
Message-ID: <2208@infmx.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 89 03:31:38 GMT
References: <1072@neptune.AMD.COM> <2183@infmx.UUCP> <24943@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Reply-To: aland@infmx.UUCP (alan denney)
Organization: INFORMIX Professional Services ("Peace thru Normalization")
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In article <24943@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) writes:
|aland@infmx.UUCP (alan denney) <2183@infmx.UUCP> :
|-   SHELL=c:\dosdir\command.com c:\dosdir /p /e:640
|-
|-note the additional second parameter: the directory in which
|-command.com resides.
|-My findings:
|-   1) I cannot find this documented *anywhere*, even though several
|-      under COMMAND, anywhere.  Checked IBM, Zenith, and Tatung manuals,
|-      (Zenith usually being the most thorough of the DOS manuals I see).
|
|Ahem.  From Zenith's MS-DOS Version 3.21 User's Reference, p. 3.31:
|	Syntax:
|	command [drive:][path][cttydev][/e:nnnnn][/p][/c string][/d]

"Ahem" back at you.  It ain't in Zenith MS-DOS 3.1 or 3.3+ manuals.
(I never received a 3.2 upgrade notice, so I never got it.)
If anybody finds this in the 3.1 or 3.3 manuals, please point it out.
I sure couldn't find it on the corresponding page in these versions.

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    Alan S. Denney  @  Informix Software, Inc.    
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