Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!bobmon
From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: update: re: pathlength, environment space
Summary: Round 2 (3?) in the "Ahem" wars
Message-ID: <25034@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 26 Aug 89 00:47:50 GMT
Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Organization: malkaryotic
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-|aland@infmx.UUCP (alan denney) <2183@infmx.UUCP> :
-|-   1) I cannot find this documented *anywhere*, even though several

-<24943@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (me):
-|Ahem.  From Zenith's MS-DOS Version 3.21 User's Reference, p. 3.31:

aland@infmx.UUCP (alan denney) <2208@infmx.UUCP> :
-"Ahem" back at you.  It ain't in Zenith MS-DOS 3.1 or 3.3+ manuals.


"Ahem."  :-)
I don't know about "MS-DOS 3.1" manuals; I have "MS-DOS Version 3"
manuals, but the disks give an OS that claims to be v3.1 --- and in the
manuals, volume II, p. 11.76, COMMAND is described with these same
parameters.  However, I grant that the description in v3.1 reads
differently from the v3.21 description.  (Personally, I believe that this
reflects Zenith's increasing understanding of undocumented behavior in
the OS and doc. that they received from Microscum.)

For what it's worth, the same syntax is shown, with a sketchy and
not-too-helpful description (that could be saying *anything*) in the
version 2.11 doc --- "MS-DOS Version 2", p. 11.75

disclaimer:  I haven't had this much fun since my last stare-down
contest with a kitty cat.  I'll correct any speeling errors as soon
as I look back at the keyboard....