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From: sccs@prls.UUCP (Source Code Control System)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Patches for DOS 5.0 command.com
Message-ID: <51222@prls.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jun 91 16:26:34 GMT
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Organization: Philips R&D Center, Sunnyvale, CA
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roper@nwnexus.WA.COM (Michael Roper) writes:
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->> Patch?  What patch?  In your AUTOEXEC.BAT, just add the line:
->> 
->> 	SET TEMP=disk:\directory
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->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.
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      Geesh !   Don't expect it to work if you are doing it wrong !
      For Pete's sake, try it the right way and THEN complain if it
    doesn't work.  In the mean time, check your dictionary for the
    word DEFAULT it is somewhere before "if(error)" .

Gordon Vickers                  {mips | pyramid | philabs}!prls!gordon  
Signetics in Sunnyvale,Ca (USA)     or  prls!gordon@mips.com
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