Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cica!iuvax!maytag!mks.com!andy From: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer Subject: SHELL=... (was: .SYS Files) Message-ID: <1990Jul9.172241.6825@mks.com> Date: 9 Jul 90 17:22:41 GMT References: <2367@gara.une.oz.au> <416@beartrk.beartrack.com> <1990Jul2.010333.268@xrtll.uucp> <90184.125712JXS118@psuvm.psu.edu> Reply-To: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy) Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Lines: 22 In article bumby@math.rutgers.edu (Richard Bumby) writes: >On the subject of the "shell=..." statement in config.sys -- is this >present before version 3.0? I ask because it is described in the >Toshiba T1000 manual for the built-in DOS 2.11, but attemps to use it >have not seemed to work. I know that it has existed since DOS 2.0 and I am fairly certain that DOS 1.x did not have it, but I don't have a DOS 1.x manual handy to check it out. `SHELL=' definitely works on a Toshiba T1000 because that is what I have. This is what I have in my CONFIG.SYS file and it works (note that I use / for path delimiters since DOS 2.11 allows it in config.sys and setting the switch character using the `switchar=' statement to some character other than / or \ in config.sys causes other DOS commands to allow / too): switchar=- device=c:/dos/ansi.sys shell=a:/bin/sh.exe -L -- Andy Toy, Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Internet: andy@mks.com 35 King Street North, Waterloo, UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!andy Ontario, CANADA N2J 2W9 Phone: 519-884-2251 FAX: 519-884-8861