andy@mks.com (Andy Toy) (07/10/90)
In article <Jul.6.15.00.32.1990.1996@math.rutgers.edu> bumby@math.rutgers.edu (Richard Bumby) writes: >On the subject of the "shell=..." statement in config.sys -- is this >present before version 3.0? I ask because it is described in the >Toshiba T1000 manual for the built-in DOS 2.11, but attemps to use it >have not seemed to work. I know that it has existed since DOS 2.0 and I am fairly certain that DOS 1.x did not have it, but I don't have a DOS 1.x manual handy to check it out. `SHELL=' definitely works on a Toshiba T1000 because that is what I have. This is what I have in my CONFIG.SYS file and it works (note that I use / for path delimiters since DOS 2.11 allows it in config.sys and setting the switch character using the `switchar=' statement to some character other than / or \ in config.sys causes other DOS commands to allow / too): switchar=- device=c:/dos/ansi.sys shell=a:/bin/sh.exe -L -- Andy Toy, Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Internet: andy@mks.com 35 King Street North, Waterloo, UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!andy Ontario, CANADA N2J 2W9 Phone: 519-884-2251 FAX: 519-884-8861