pfales@ttrde.UUCP (Peter Fales) (12/05/88)
A short while ago, Jerome Schneider posted a couple of patches to improve the functionality of command.com with the MKS toolkit. Thanks Jerome! > The first patch improves functionality when an MKS /etc/passwd file entry > specifies command.com as the login shell. > The second patch eliminates the "Specified COMMAND search path bad" error > from programs that call command.com (via the system() or EXEC functions). > Many applications written in MSC 4.x or 5.x use the system() library call > that fails to examine the switch char (- or /) before issuing a hard-wired > exec on ($COMSPEC /c "string to be executed"). I have not tried the first (login) patch yet, but the second is great. Like Jerome, I think the toolkit is great, but this business with "$COMSPEC /c" has been a frequent problem, now hopefully over. It would be nice if MKS (are you listening Gerry?) could include this in their patches to COMMAND.COM, but it is a little difficult since the patch address changes from version to version. For those who might be interested, the patch address that Jerome found at 0DA7 in PC-DOS 3.1 is at 0DE5 in both the generic MS-DOS 3.2 and the "AT&T Personal Computer DOS Version 3.20 Rev 2.02" -- Peter Fales AT&T, Room 2F-217 200 Park Plaza UUCP: ...att!ttrde!pfales Naperville, IL 60566 Domain: pfales@ttrde.att.com work: (312) 416-5357