Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!milton!ogicse!pdxgate!parsely!percy!nosun!qiclab!leonard From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell Subject: Re: DOS 4.01, COMSPEC and Novell Message-ID: <1991Feb24.093346.1856@qiclab.scn.rain.com> Date: 24 Feb 91 09:33:46 GMT References: <2359@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon. Lines: 24 legg@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Christian Legg) writes: > 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. ^ Oh really? Take the A: out of the shell command. We learnmed the hard way that for] some reason, Netware barfs if the shell includes a path. shell=c:\commmand.com /e:1024 /p causes problems too! As I recall, even explicit setting of COMSPEC had intermittent problems. -- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.uucp personal: CIS: [70465,203] 70465.203@compuserve.com business: CIS: [76376,1107] 76376.1107@compuserve.com Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com