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From: bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Environment problems
Summary: COMMAND.COM takes an argument
Message-ID: <1848@borabora.omni.com>
Date: 8 Mar 90 17:56:40 GMT
References: <8377@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
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Organization: OMNI Solutions, Mountain View, CA
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In article <8377@lindy.Stanford.EDU>, LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:
> In your CONFIG.SYS file, put the line:
> 
> SHELL=c:\command.com /p /E:2048
> 
> or similar, where you should use the correct path for your system,
> (note that if it is not in the root directory, DOS will set COMSPEC
> to the correct disk, but not to the right path, so you may have to
> set this manually).

If you give COMMAND an argument consisting of a drive and directory,
COMSPEC gets set correctly.  So the above line should read:

	SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /P /E:2048


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