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From: fisher@sc2a.unige.ch (Markus Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: 4DOS APPEND problems
Message-ID: <231@sc2a.unige.ch>
Date: 16 Aug 90 13:17:03 GMT
References: <2000@enea.se>
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
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In article <2000@enea.se>, jan@enea.se (Jan Wester) writes:
> I have a problem with my methods on the PC using 4DOS.
>
> [... 4DOS and APPEND ...]
>
> 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. 

If the `restart' is Tom Almy's of May 1990 (recently posted c.b.i.p), then
the boot drive is taken as the first character of the environment varialble
BOOTDRIVE or COMSPEC.  In fact, `restart' isn't looking for the main command
interpreter, but for it's data file `configur.dat', in the root directory of
the drive where BOOTDRIVE or COMSPEC points.  The files actually written by
`restart' can be anywhere.

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