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From: ansari@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Aali Ansari)
Date: Fri, 17-Jun-88 11:00:45 EDT
Message-ID: <1988Jun17.110045.27448@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Shell command question
References: <1102@cod.NOSC.MIL> <1018@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Reply-To: ansari@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Aali Ansari)
Keywords: shell msdos autoexec.bat

In article <1018@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes:
>In article <1102@cod.NOSC.MIL> desmond@cod.NOSC.MIL (J. Desmond) writes:
>>I've noticed that using the shell= command in the config.sys file
>>inhibits execution of the autoexec file on my Zenith 248.  Is this
>>true of other clones?  Is there a way to inhibit the inhibition?
>>Even shell=command.com does it.
>
>I believe that you want to use "shell=command.com /p".  This tells command.com
>that the invocation in question is the "login" shell.
>-- 
>char *reply-to-russ(int network) {
>if(network == BITNET) return "NELSON@CLUTX";
>else return "nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu"; }

	is there a way to give the path to autoexec.bat  instead of keeping
	in root ?
aali