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From: defaria@hpclapd.HP.COM (Andy DeFaria)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Writing an alternate shell (COMMAND.COM)?
Message-ID: <950038@hpclapd.HP.COM>
Date: 31 Aug 90 16:40:20 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab
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>/ hpclapd:comp.lang.pascal / ffritze@hpwad.HP.COM (#Fromut Fritze) /  8:35 am  Aug 30, 1990 /
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>try setting comspec to run a batch correctly:
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>  set comspec=command.com /c nodos

If I remember my test  for  this correctly, this  won't work because of the
embedded  spaces in the  value (i.e.  the space after "COM"  and before the
"/C"  and  the space after   the "/C").  Also,   DOS  doesn't seem  to like
quotation marks (i.e. set comspec="command.com /c nodos").