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- From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
- Subject: Re: FAQ answered about DOS booting
- Message-ID: <8392@lib.tmc.edu>
- Date: 9 Jan 1993 15:11:00 GMT
- References: <1993Jan9.020838.24090@sfu.ca>
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- 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
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- Actually, you can save some memory by using SHELL=COMMAND /P. If you specify
- it that way, it executes directly out of ROM; using COMMAND.COM loads a little
- program into RAM that merely invokes the ROM copy.
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- Apparently, the version of DOS in the 95 looks for CONFIG.SYS in A:\, then in
- C:\, and if neither is found, doesn't even try to look for AUTOEXEC.BAT.
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