Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!deimos.cis.ksu.edu!harris.cis.ksu.edu!mac From: mac@harris.cis.ksu.edu (Myron A. Calhoun) Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith.z100 Subject: Re: (none) Keywords: clarification Message-ID: <0xe21@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> Date: 21 Sep 89 13:09:09 GMT References: <2516e281@kendra.wf.ags.com> Sender: news@deimos.cis.ksu.edu Reply-To: mac@harris.cis.ksu.edu (Myron A. Calhoun) Organization: Kansas State University, Dept of Computing & Information Sciences Lines: 24 In article <2516e281@kendra.wf.ags.com> Drew Derbyshire writes: >You are confusing the SHELL parameter (in CONFIG.SYS) and COMSPEC. The >actual scenenero that is happening to you is like this: [many lines deleted] > .... No need to copy them to RAM drive). BUT BY DOING SO, I CAN "FORMAT D:/S" FROM MY RAM DRIVE! > You set COMSPEC to 'anything'; now, if you invoke Kermit,.... > for functions such as DIRectory), you will get this > 'other' COMMAND.COM (or whatever).... Well, that sure clears it up for me as to why it SEEMED to work the way I thought it should most of the time! >The solution is .... Please let me know if this helps you. Thanks! -- Myron A. Calhoun, PhD EE, W0PBV, (913) 532-6350 (work), 539-4448 (home). INTERNET: mac@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu BITNET: mac@ksuvax1.bitnet UUCP: ...{rutgers, texbell}!ksuvax1!harry!mac