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From: richard@calvin.spp.cornell.edu (Richard Brittain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 4dos 2.21 and 3+Open
Summary: Maybe just rename 4dos.com to command.com
Message-ID: <1989Dec20.013729.2224@calvin.spp.cornell.edu>
Date: 20 Dec 89 01:37:29 GMT
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In article <653@dcscg1.UUCP> drezac@dcscg1.UUCP (Duane L. Rezac) writes:
>From article <9240016@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com>, by marco@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com (Marco Dalla-Gasperina):
>> We have just upgraded our network to 3+open... the hitch is that
>> 4dos 2.21 causes the network not to load.
>
>I have found that some programs must have command.com available to load. To 
>solve this problem with some of the programs on my computer, I keep command.com
>as the primary shell and then use 4dos as a secondary shell. Then the programs 
>
I have one communication program that insists on shelling out to "command.com"
so I made a copy of 4dos.com and called it command.com and my program was 
quite happy.  It might be worth trying this before returning to the
real command.com

Richard Brittain,                   School of Elect. Eng.,  Upson Hall   
                                    Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
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