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From: bell@ocsmd.OCS.COM (John T. Bell)
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Subject: Re: BEWARE of changing the command line switch (switchar)
Keywords: switchar COMMAND.COM
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Date: 17 Oct 88 16:13:02 GMT
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In article <824@kksys.UUCP> bird@kksys.UUCP (Mike Bird) writes:
>
>BEWARE: When you change the command line switch on COMMAND.COM, there are
>quite a few products that no longer will work.

I have found that any aplication linked with the Phoenix Linker
(plink) has problems if switchar is changed. This includes all clipper
compiled dbase programs. Also WordStar, and PibTerm have problems
whenever a new shell is invoked. I suspect that the PibTerm problem
may indicate that any thing compiled with T*rboPascal may break.


John T. Bell
My word's only, etc...