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From: rogers@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Bill Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: SYS:PUBLIC/MSDOS/Vx.xx
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.215634.9701@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 29 Mar 91 21:56:34 GMT
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ckinsman@eecs.wsu.edu (Chris Kinsman) writes:

>In article <3125@beguine.UUCP> mcphil@med.unc.edu (Philip McNamara) writes:
>>Can anyone give me some really good reasons to map a search path
>>to a DOS on the file server?  Is there some problem with keeping
>>the DOS local?  I know for diskless staitons you need the dos
>>on the file server, but I should think it is unnecessary for PC's.
>>
Many of the machines in our student lab boot form ROM's on the card without
floppy. And so they don't normally keep dos with them. We have it mapped for
these people and have set the comspec, but We do "if exist c:\command.com" in
the system login and let the user use the local copy if it's there.
Bill