emb978@leah.Albany.Edu ( Eric M. Boehm) (01/23/88)
Someone mentioned to me that they had trouble getting the shell command to work in DOS 3.3. I had previously specified SHELL=[d:][\pathname]\command.com [d:][\pathname] /e:nnnn /p I checked three references and the solution to the problem may be to swap the /e:nnnn and /p switches to read SHELL=[d:][\pathname]\command.com [d:][\pathname] /p /e:nnnn I have had no trouble with the first order but three references (MS-DOS Power User's Guide, DOS Power User's Guide, Using PC-DOS 3.3) all used the second order. I hope this helps anyone who has had trouble with this command.