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From: LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Command.com is NOT invalid or missing
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Date: 7 Dec 89 09:04:19 GMT
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Every so often, my machine comes up with the following message upon
exiting from a program:

Invalid or missing COMMAND.COM

System halting

or words to that effect. The system then hangs, and I have to
reboot. My current machine is an Epson Equity II+. The same thing
used to happen much more frequently on my previous machine, a no
name clone, until I took it back.

My COMMAND.COM is fine. I have a correctly specified SHELL= line in
my CONFIG.SYS file, and a correctly specified SET COMSPEC= line in
my AUTOEXEC.BAT file.

What is happening? My only thought was that it might have something
to do with reloading the high memory portion of COMMAND.COM after
running a memory hogging program, but my brain stopped at this
point.

Have other people had the same experience, and / or does anybody
know the cause of this not too reassuring symptom?

Thanks

Richard Stanton

pstanton@gsb-what.stanford.edu