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From: reisert@ricks.enet.dec.com (Jim Reisert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 4DOS COMSPEC Question
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Date: 10 Jul 90 14:44:03 GMT
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In article <1437@psc90.UUCP>, sos@psc90.UUCP (Steffan O'Sullivan) writes...
>
>If I want to set COMSPEC equal to COMMAND.COM for exiting to DOS from
>programs, will that cause a problem with 4DOS?

4DOS is designed to support this.  If there are any problems, they're bugs!

>I find COMMAND.COM loads more quickly and smaller as a secondary shell

Really? On my 386 it only takes 20K (with EMS swapping) to start a secondary
4DOS shell.  If you're not using EMS swapping, milage may vary.

jim

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