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From: grantk@manta.NOSC.MIL (Kelly J. Grant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Cute behavior from a PC
Keywords: shell=, config.sys
Message-ID: <1139@manta.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 10 Jul 90 20:29:57 GMT
Organization: Computer Sciences Corporation
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X-Local-Date: 10 Jul 90 13:29:57 PDT

Hi netfolks,

One of my coworkers came to me with a problem.  His PC would boot
up, and end up with a C> prompt because it didn't run the
AUTOEXEC.BAT.  He could run autoexec by typing it at the command
line and all seemed ok.

It turned out that an improper SHELL= line was included in the
config.sys file.  His shell= said this:

shell=C:\command.com  /e:1024

Note the missing C:\ parameter, as well as the missing /p terminator.
So, the beharior was to boot without running autoexec.

I'm not looking for any response, just thought I'd share
with you all a cute problem.  I think it failed because of the
missing /p, but I wasn't curious enough to test it out. 

Kelly

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