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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MSC coded replacement for COMMAND.COM
Message-ID: <3188@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 88 01:48:53 GMT
References: <1284@adec23.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
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In article <1284@adec23.UUCP> mark@adec23.UUCP (Mark Salyzyn) writes:
>In CONFIG.SYS:
>	SHELL=HELLO.EXE

This is not guaranteed to work.  Some versions of MSDOS cannot load an
EXE format file unless Microsoft's COMMAND.COM is resident and has
trapped a software interrupt.  Try converting your program to COM
format, or write a small COM format shell that contains its own EXE
relocation code and invokes your bigger shell by loading it into memory
and performing relocation.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi