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- From: mancini@fermat.cs.jhu.edu (Todd A. Mancini)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Subject: Re: Problems with the COMSPEC environment variable
- Keywords: DOS Novell 3.11 COMSPEC Login script
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.155116.18080@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 15:51:16 GMT
- References: <1992Aug19.093722.19288@coe.montana.edu>
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
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- In article <1992Aug19.093722.19288@coe.montana.edu> icsu8053@cs.montana.edu (Craig Pratt) writes:
- >I've had a very hard time figuring out a problem related to setting the
- >COMSPEC environment variable in the system login script. As usual, the
- >system login script maps a search drive to SYS:PUBLIC\%MACHINE\%OS etc.
- >(don't have it on me at the moment). Then, it does a
- >DOS SET COMSPEC=Sx:COMMAND.COM . Well, whenever a program attempts to shell
- >out using the COMSPEC, it dies with an "Invalid COMMAND.COM - System halted."
- >This happens on all versions of DOS from 3.30 through 5.00.
- >
- [DETAILS DELETED]
- >
- >Thanks.
- >
- >--
- > Craig Pratt icsu8053@cs.montana.edu
- > Montana State University, Bozeman MT gcp1070@msu.oscs.montana.edu
- > "Chicken McNuggets: If they McCome from where I McThink they do,
- > I don't want to McEat it!" - Jerry Seinfeld
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- The last time I got this error, I realized that I had forgotten to make
- EVERYONE a trustee of the directory (at least with [ROS] rights...)
-
- Hope this helps,
- -Todd
-