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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: set comspec bug???
Message-ID: <896@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 23-Nov-85 17:57:33 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 23 17:57:33 1985
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> I'm trying to use set comspec to get command.com to reload off
> a ramdisk under PC-DOS2.1.  However, even if set shows
> COMSPEC=C:\COMMAND.COM and command.com is on the ramdisk, I seem to
> always get the message to put the command.com disk in drive A.
> 
> Is this a known bug and is there a patch?  Or is there a way to make
> all of command.com memory resident?  Or am I all wet?  
> 
> I imagine either I'm doing something dumb or this was recognized and
> fixed long ago.  So you may want to respond by email to avoiding boring
> everyone else.

You're not doing something dumb; it just doesn't work.  My ITT DOS (MS-DOS
2.11) manual says that the CONFIG.SYS line

		SHELL=path

sets up COMSPEC and loads COMMAND.COM initially from the named path.  Bull.
Even if I define it as \COMMAND.COM I get the ``Please insert COMMAND.COM
disk'' message.  Anyone know a fix?  BTW has anyone figured out why when I
patched my COMMAND.COM to have a larger environment it stopped reading
AUTOEXEC.BAT?

--Brandon
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