salter@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (John E Salter) (12/24/90)
How does one prevent an application from shelling to DOS? Particuarly applications running on a novell network which is started from a menu system. Thank you.
silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver) (12/25/90)
In article <1990Dec24.012958.9228@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> salter@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (John E Salter) writes:
$How does one prevent an application from shelling to DOS?
Well, before invoking it, you could set the COMSPEC environment variable
to point to a program which simply returns, and reset it afterwards. There
may well be other ways ...
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