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From: bl@infovax.UUCP (Bj|rn Larsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Command.com is NOT invalid or missing
Message-ID: <319@infovax.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 89 15:05:44 GMT
References: <6305@lindy.Stanford.EDU> <1989Dec9.234750.21922@santra.uucp>
Reply-To: bl@infovax.UUCP (Bj|rn Larsson)
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In article <1989Dec9.234750.21922@santra.uucp> k33231a@taltta.hut.fi (Timo J. Salin) writes:
>In article <6305@lindy.Stanford.EDU> LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:
>>Every so often, my machine comes up with the following message upon
>>exiting from a program:
>>
>>Invalid or missing COMMAND.COM
>>
>>System halting
>...
>
>Sounds like the problem I'm having too. I think it's DOS 3.3(?) releated
>'cause 3.20, 3.21 and 4.01 run perfectly on the machines I'm using (read:

I run PCDOS 3.3, and this happens for me too. But very seldom, maybe once
every other month. I suppose it has to do with the non-resident part of
command.com (in high memory) being written over by an application, which
necessitates it to be reloaded from disk. For some reason, DOS seem not
to find it. I haven't looked into this, because it's no big problem for
me. Could it have something to do with redefining SWITCHAR to '-'? I do
that on my machine. Maybe it means DOS cannot find the path given by the
COMSPEC env. variable?
							Bjorn

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