jaz@icd.ab.com (Jack A. Zucker) (10/11/90)
I don't know whether this is a Windows bug or an OS/2 bug. Me thinks it's a Windows Bug. I have OS/2 v1.2 and Windows 3 residing on my system. I use the dual boot feature to boot into either Dos or OS/2. My config.sys for dos uses "shell=c:\dos\command.com" and my autoexec.bat uses "set COMSPEC=c:\dos\command.com". Windows 3 runs fine except that when you try to invoke a DOS window, it always uses the copy in the root directory. Even if I specify to run \dos\command.com. The solution (kludgy) was to copy command.com from \dos to the root directory in my autoexec.bat. The dual boot feature of OS/2 copies (among other things) it's own version of command.com to the root directory so it runs OK. The rest of system runs fine in standard DOS mode with a different version of command.com (OS/2's) in the root directory because of my comspec and shell command. Why doesn't MS Windows listen ? Of course, why doesn't the "boot /dos" command from OS/2 copy command.com from the \dos directory. I think it's two bugs ! -Jaz | Jack A Zucker {cwjcc,pyramid,decvax,uunet}!jaz@icd.ab.com | | Allen-Bradley Company, Inc. or ICCGCC::ZUCKER | | 747 Alpha Drive | Highland Hts., OH 44143 phone: (216) 646-4668 FAX: (216) 646-4484 |
goodearl@world.std.com (Robert Goodearl) (10/12/90)
In article <1913@abvax.UUCP> jaz@icd.ab.com (Jack A. Zucker) writes: >I don't know whether this is a Windows bug or an OS/2 bug. Me thinks it's >a Windows Bug. I have OS/2 v1.2 and Windows 3 residing on my system. I use >the dual boot feature to boot into either Dos or OS/2. My config.sys for >dos uses "shell=c:\dos\command.com" and my autoexec.bat uses >"set COMSPEC=c:\dos\command.com". Windows 3 runs fine except that when >you try to invoke a DOS window, it always uses the copy in the root directory. >Even if I specify to run \dos\command.com. The solution (kludgy) was to copy >command.com from \dos to the root directory in my autoexec.bat. The dual boot >feature of OS/2 copies (among other things) it's own version of command.com >to the root directory so it runs OK. > >The rest of system runs fine in standard DOS mode with a different version >of command.com (OS/2's) in the root directory because of my comspec and >shell command. Why doesn't MS Windows listen ? > You don't need to have the command.com for either dos or OS/2's compatibility box in the root directory. (Specify the path to the OS/2 version in the config.sys and autoexec.bat for OS/2 and the compatibility box, respectively.) The other thing to try is taking the root directory out of your path, or put it after the entry where command.com lives. -- Bob Goodearl -- goodearl@world.std.com