Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!midway!valley From: valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: cloning COMSPEC? Keywords: look elsewhere for command.com Message-ID: Date: 25 Feb 91 23:36:15 GMT References: Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Distribution: na Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 23 cousens@remus.rutgers.edu (Scott Cousens) writes: >I am trying to create a startup disk for use on a network with a >computer with no HD. After starting up the network programs, I would >like to be able to take the startup disk away, and have the whole >thing run off the network drive. >I have set COMSPEC=L:\COMMAND.COM but this does not always work. >After exiting from programs such as WordPerfect or Lotus 123, the First of all, you probably don't want the leading backslash in that COMSPEC definition (since COMMAND.COM is probably in the directory pointed to by L:, not the root directory of the volume) Second, I have noticed that, under Netware, one gets better results if one sets the COMSPEC to the full path (including the server and volume name) of COMMAND.COM. My AUTOEXEC.BAT contains code (available upon request) to (portably) set COMSPEC= to something like \\SERVER\VOLUME\DIRECTORY1\DIRECTORY2\...\COMMAND.COM. It works well with even the most obnoxious destroyers of the transient portion of COMMAND.COM. Hope this helps...