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From: noelroy@kean.mun.ca (Noel Roy, Economics Dept., Memorial University)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: update: re: pathlength, environment space
Message-ID: <13652@kean.mun.ca>
Date: 28 Aug 89 14:13:01 GMT
References: <1072@neptune.AMD.COM> <2183@infmx.UUCP> <24943@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <2208@infmx.UUCP>
Organization: Computing Services, Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
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In article <2208@infmx.UUCP>, aland@infmx.UUCP (Dr. Scump) writes:
> 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.
> 
> --
>     Alan S. Denney  @  Informix Software, Inc.    
>          {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland                 "I want to live!
>    --------------------------------------------       as an honest man,
>     Disclaimer:  These opinions are mine alone.       to get all I deserve
>     If I am caught or killed, the secretary           and to give all I can."
>     will disavow any knowledge of my actions.             - S. Vega

Ahem again.

Try Xenith's MS-DOS Version 3.3+ User's Guide and Command Reference, 
p. 1.30.

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