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Subject: DOS 2.0 COMMAND.COM Loading
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Date: Fri, 26-Aug-83 02:38:40 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 26 02:38:40 1983
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From:  John L. Romkey <romkey@MIT-CSR>

Is there any way I can convince DOS 2.0 to load COMMAND.COM off some
other drive than A:?  I've tried setting COMSPEC and DOS ignored it; I
assume that the value didn't get exported (to borrow a phrase) to DOS
or something like that.  I tried the SHELL configuration parameter and
it did all the wrong things; it fetched COMMAND.COM from the right
disk but then it didn't execute AUTOEXEC.BAT and COMSPEC still had the
same old A:\COMMAND.COM as its value.

Thanks.

	- John Romkey
	  romkey@mit-csr