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From: roper@nwnexus.WA.COM (Michael Roper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Patches for DOS 5.0 command.com
Message-ID: <527@nwnexus.WA.COM>
Date: 16 Jun 91 20:12:41 GMT
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Reply-To: roper@nwnexus.UUCP (Michael Roper)
Organization: Amaze Inc! Software Labs, Kirkland WA
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> Patch?  What patch?  In your AUTOEXEC.BAT, just add the line:
> 
> 	SET TEMP=disk:\directory

The reason I thought this was broken (and in fact it is)
is that I have operated with a temp variable specification
of "D:" for several years and not a single app that used
the temp variable failed to handle the spec properly --
until DOS 5.0.  In any event, we are now copacetic.

Michael Roper