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From: jan@enea.se (Jan Wester)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: 4DOS APPEND problems
Keywords: 4DOS APPEND
Message-ID: <2000@enea.se>
Date: 15 Aug 90 09:00:52 GMT
Organization: Enea Data AB, Sweden
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I have a problem with my methods on the PC using 4DOS.
I have read in the README-file that DOS APPEND is not fully supported in
4DOS.
That is a big problem to me if I want to replace COMMAND.COM with 4DOS.
Why ?

Because I have several BAT-files that uses APPEND to let my application
programs search in the right place for data-files for that application.
That means that I can call up an application from everywhere on the
hard-drives and get the application programs to find their data files and
that is very nice I think.

But now it seems that 4DOS does not support this and that is VERY annoying.

Is there any other way to do this with 4DOS ? I have not found any !

The problems with setting comspec to command.com and set up aliases for
command /c does not work without getting hanging and a lot of text from
command.com on the screen.

And I always MUST reboot the system after such a try !

Am I missing something or ?

Another pecularity or bug seems to be that if comspec is set to a path on
the D:-drive where I have my 4DOS-package, there can be confusion when trying
to run programs that are supposing command.com is on the C:-drive like the
version of restart I have. 
I then have to manually patch comspec to use command.com to find the files.

This can of course be solved by putting 4DOS to the C-drive (I think). I have
not tested that yet.

I can as an information say that I run DOS4.01 in Microsofts version under
386max from Qualitas.

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