romkey@MIT-CSR@sri-unix.UUCP (08/26/83)
From: John L. Romkey <romkey@MIT-CSR> Is there any way I can convince DOS 2.0 to load COMMAND.COM off some other drive than A:? I've tried setting COMSPEC and DOS ignored it; I assume that the value didn't get exported (to borrow a phrase) to DOS or something like that. I tried the SHELL configuration parameter and it did all the wrong things; it fetched COMMAND.COM from the right disk but then it didn't execute AUTOEXEC.BAT and COMSPEC still had the same old A:\COMMAND.COM as its value. Thanks. - John Romkey romkey@mit-csr
pete@LBL-CSAM@vortex.UUCP (08/29/83)
From: Pete Carah <vortex!pete@LBL-CSAM>
Yes, you can convince DOS 2.0 to load COMMAND.COM from somewhere other
than A:. Say for example that COMMAND.COM is on G:\BIN (my case).
The SHELL config command to use COMMAND from there is:
SHELL=G:\BIN\COMMAND.COM G:\BIN /P
The second G:\BIN is the path in COMSPEC, the P switch means
permanent, and causes the AUTOEXEC to be used.