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From: karinc@isc.intel.com (Karin Coffee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: DOS 4.01, COMSPEC and Novell
Message-ID: <1149@intelisc.isc.intel.com>
Date: 15 Feb 91 00:21:35 GMT
References: <2359@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au>
Organization: Supercomputer Systems Division, Intel Corp.
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In article <2359@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> legg@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Christian Legg) writes:
>
>  I'm having a problem with some DOS 4.01 workstations that are accessing
>a NW386 server and I am wondering if anyone else has had this problem
>before.
>
>  The CONFIG.SYS of the boot floppy disks contains
>
>  shell = command.com a: /e:1024 /p
>
>  to ensure that sufficient environment space is allocated.
>
>  When the workstation logs into the fileserver, the COMSPEC environment
>variable is set to Y:\COMMAND.COM, where Y: is \PUBLIC\%MACHINE... etc.
>
>  If so, what can be done to get around this problem, if anything? I have
>thought about modifying COMMAND.COM so that it starts off with > 160 bytes
>of environment space so that I would not need to reload it in CONFIG.SYS.
>Has anyone else done this, and if so, how did you do it?
>

I didn't learn about setting COMSPEC in the login scripts until almost a
year after I started managing a Novell Network.  Every workstation on the
network sets COMSPEC to the command.com on their hard drive.  This includes
machines running DOS version 3.2, 3.3, and 4.01.  I don't set the COMSPEC
variable during login.  So far it works great!  I had thought about 
changing it, but I don't really see the point.  If it works, don't change
it.

Hope this helps.


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