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From: pete@indep1.UUCP (Peter Franks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Boot of A:, switch to  C:?
Summary: Use COMSPEC
Message-ID: <1374@indep1.UUCP>
Date: 3 Dec 90 18:23:01 GMT
References: <27573f78-5d6comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc@vpnet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: pete@indep1.MCS.COM (Peter Franks)
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In article <27573f78-5d6comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc@vpnet.chi.il.us> ron@vpnet.chi.il.us (Ron Winograd) writes:
->Hello everyone,
->	I have a 386, running both MS-DOS 4.01 and UNIX System V.
->My question: I have the active hd partition on unix, because that
->is the only way I know how to start it. This means that if I want MS-DOS,
->I have to boot off a floppy. However, if I do, then I have to keep it in
->everytime I exit a program, like Word, or Delux Paint etc.. because it
->needs command.com. Is there anyway to "switch control" over to the C:
->drive, without having to use fdisk to switch active paritions again and
->rebooting?

Try putting the following into your A:\AUTOEXEC.BAT

set COMSPEC=c:\command.com
c:

That will make the system look for command.com on Drive C: instead of
the drive you booted from (and log you into it).  If you have COMMAND.COM
in a different place, use the entire path in the 'set COMSPEC' line.  You could
do virtually the same thing in your CONFIG.SYS file using the 'SHELL='
command.  RTFM.

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