Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!inesc!unl!unl!jpc From: jpc@fctunl.rccn.pt (Jose Pina Coelho) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer Subject: Re: .SYS Files Message-ID: Date: 4 Jul 90 11:33:04 GMT References: <2367@gara.une.oz.au> <416@beartrk.beartrack.com> <1990Jul2.010333.268@xrtll.uucp> <90184.125712JXS118@psuvm.psu.edu> Sender: news@fctunl.rccn.pt (USENET News System) Organization: Universidade Nova de Lisboa -- Lisbon, Portugal Lines: 29 In-Reply-To: JXS118@psuvm.psu.edu's message of 3 Jul 90 16:57:12 GMT In article <90184.125712JXS118@psuvm.psu.edu> JXS118@psuvm.psu.edu (Jeff Siegel, Op from Atherton Hall) writes: > in Dos versions 3.X on up. I bet doing: > > Shell=prog1 > Shell=prog2 > Shell=command.com ... > > will work (as long as prog1 and prog2 terminate normally, but I can't swear > to it.) If it does work, Its a lot simpler than some other things mentioned. Well, I've tried it long ago and it doesn't. When config.sys is run, the shell lines are the only ones which aren't carried out immediately, instead they are copied to a buffer, every one overwritig the last one so you only run the last shell On dos 4.XX you can do: Install=prog1 Install=prog2 Shell=command.com -- Jose Pina Coelho | BITNET/Internet: jpc@fctunl.rccn.pt Rua Jau N 1, 2 Dto | UUCP: jpc@unl.uucp 1300 Lisboa, PORTUGAL | ARPA: jpc%hara.fctunl.rccn.pt@mitvma.mit.edu Home phone: (+351) (1) 640767 - If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister ?