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From: djb@wjh12.harvard.edu (David J. Birnbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: 4DOS COMSPEC Question
Message-ID: <525@wjh12.harvard.edu>
Date: 26 Jul 90 12:50:37 GMT
References: <3683@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: djb@wjh12.UUCP (David J. Birnbaum)
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge MA
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In article <3683@crash.cts.com> garyb@pro-graphics.cts.com (Gary Botnovcan) writes:

>In-Reply-To: message from sos@psc90.UUCP
>
>Of course, those programs that explicitly load COMMAND.COM don't load
>4DOS, even if you want them to, unless you hack them (search for the string
>COMMAND.COM and replace it with 4DOS.COM, being very careful to match format
>with the original.

You can rename 4dos.com to 'command.com' to trick programs that
blindly load command.com instead of checking comspec.  If you have a real
command.com on your disk, be sure that the renamed 4dos.com precedes it in
your path.

A nuisance, but easier than hacking each application.

--David 

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