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From: smsmith@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M Smith)
Subject: Re: Why DOS from MAIN group fails...?
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daveegan: @dhw68k.cts.com (Dave Egan - N6XVZ) writes:
>Whenever I try to run the "DOS Prompt" from the MAIN group, things start
>well but end up miserable.  I do get  the MS-DOS prompt and the C> prompt.
>However, when I enter a command, ie: dir, the whole machine goes through
>a COLD BOOT with RAM check and all.  What gives?   This failed under MS-DOS
>3.31 and still with MS-DOS 5.0.  Has anybody else seen this as well?
>-- 
>Dave Egan                                           | Radio: N6XVZ
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I tried to email to your internet address twice, but it bounced...

This may be way off, but have you put a COMSPEC= statement
in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file?  It might be that DOS cannot find
its command interpreter (COMMAND.COM) and then bombs out.

Here's a sample comspec line:

SET COMSPEC=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM

Good luck.

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