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From: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS 3.30A and "SHELL=" in CONFIG.SYS (SLOWness)
Message-ID: <1990Oct30.162116.27772@mks.com>
Date: 30 Oct 90 16:21:16 GMT
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In article <90300.181218JMEYERS@MTUS5.BITNET> JMEYERS@MTUS5.BITNET writes:
>There have been a lot of things changed in the subtle ways that the
>SHELL command works in the past few versions of DOS.  So be sure to
>check out the  specifics of your DOS version before expanding the
>environment size with SHELL.

There is only one thing that I can think of that changed with the
`SHELL=' statement in the config.sys for different versions of DOS.
Older versions of DOS allowed the pathname to the shell to be
specified using `/' or `\' delimiters wheres recent versions only
allow `\'.  You must be referring to the options of command.com 
for different versions of DOS.
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