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From: silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: shelling to Dos
Message-ID: <1990Dec25.024222.13265@xrtll.uucp>
Date: 25 Dec 90 02:42:22 GMT
References: <1990Dec24.012958.9228@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: silver@xrtll.UUCP (Hi Ho Silver)
Organization: Not around here, pal!
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In article <1990Dec24.012958.9228@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> salter@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (John E Salter) writes:
$How does one prevent an application from shelling to DOS?

   Well, before invoking it, you could set the COMSPEC environment variable
to point to a program which simply returns, and reset it afterwards.  There
may well be other ways ...
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