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From: ralf+@cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Desqview and 4Dos
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.122255.17741@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 25 Jan 91 12:22:55 GMT
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In article <1991Jan24.191946.1@cbrown.claremont.edu> dhosek@cbrown.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) writes:
}I noticed while reading through the Desqview documentation that
}it needs to have command.com in the root directory of the boot
}disk. Does this mean that it won't work with 4Dos? Just thought
}I'd check before I ordered my copy.

DESQview works just fine with 4DOS as the primary shell here....  Versions 1.x
required COMMAND.COM in the directory from which DV was invoked, but that was
a long time ago.  Versions 2.00 through the current 2.32 will use COMSPEC to
find the shell.
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