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From: mintz@hpindda.HP.COM (Ken Mintz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: RFC: role of command.com
Message-ID: <4330076@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 3 May 88 21:12:47 GMT
Organization: HP Technical Networks, Cupertino, Calif.
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> Some of us hated command.com and switched to something else a long time ago.

  I'm curious about the role of command.com with respect to running an
  application.  This quote suggests that command.com is interchangeable, which
  is what I thot.  However, when I ran into a particular problem, one person
  explained that it had to do with the version of command.com that I was using.

  I'm trying to run an old Multiplan on an AT.  When I run under DOS 3.1, I
  don't have a problem.  I am also able to run under DOS 2.0 which is on the MP
  floppy.  But when I run under DOS 3.2, the system hangs.  

  My understanding was that command.com is simply a command interpreter.  As
  such, I would not expect any interaction between it and an application run
  under it.

  I suspect the real problem is in the hidden files (BIO.COM and DOS.COM).  As
  I recall, these form the real kernel, right?

  Thanks in advance for any email on the subject.

-- Regards, Ken Mintz

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