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- From: howesb@monashee.sfu.ca (Charles Howes)
- Subject: Re: FAQ answered about DOS booting
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.075143.29345@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1993Jan9.020838.24090@sfu.ca> <1ildfeINN4sf@uwm.edu>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 07:51:43 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- In article <1ildfeINN4sf@uwm.edu> anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan9.020838.24090@sfu.ca> howesb@fraser.sfu.ca (Charles Howes) writes:
- >>The short answer: need SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /P in CONFIG.SYS
- >
- >>Definitely needs to be added to the FAQ.
- >
- >I didn't put it in the FAQ because it's in the HP 95LX Users's Guide
- >(4th Edition), Appendix B "MS-DOS in the HP 95LX", page B-24. If this
- >information or the warning about putting in the space before "/P" isn't
- >in any of the other editions I'll definitely put it in the FAQ list.
-
- Well, you got me there. That's the one place I didn't look.
-
- I don't read the manual when I want to get something done, for the simple
- reason that it seems like a Lotus 123 manual with some tidbits about a
- calculator called an HP95LX thrown in.
-
- Ok, I'm probably not being fair, but that's what it seems like.
-
- Also, I've tried finding out about the power requirements for the HP in the
- manual, and I had a bit of difficulty finding it in the index. AC Adaptor
- was the secret keyword.
-
- ===
- On another angle, when does a frequently asked question become a Frequently
- Asked Question? When it's determined that reading the manual would not have
- prevented the question?
-