Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!ima!absolut!bill From: bill@absolut.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: Orphaned Response Message-ID: <6@absolut.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Mar-85 04:39:55 EST Article-I.D.: absolut.6 Posted: Sat Mar 9 04:39:55 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Mar-85 06:57:13 EST Lines: 25 Nf-ID: #R:aecom:-115700:absolut:12000006:177600:1295 Nf-From: absolut!bill Mar 5 09:19:00 1985 >I have seen many references to arguments to command.com, but I have >not been able to find them metioned in any of the manuals. Specificly >I have seen -c and -p. Does anybody knows what all the arguments are and >what they do? -- >Yosef Gold >...{philabs,cucard,pegasus,ihnp4,rocky2}!aecom!gold ---------- Typing command at the DOS system prompt loads a secondary commmand processor. The -p or /p argument tells the secondary command processor to become permanent in memory. (i.e. The new command processor becomes the primary and there is no way to return to the the original command processor.) The -c or /c argument allows you to pass a string to the secondary command processor and to return to the original processor by typing "exit" at the DOS prompt. (e.g. C>command /c chkdsk -- loads a secondary command processor and executes the chkdsk program.) The secondary command processor inherits the environment of the original processor, path etc but any changes to the secondary processor are not passed back to the original when the secondary is "exited". I am only aware of the /c and /p arguments. Hope this helps. William Gibbs {ucbvax!cbosgd!ima!cfib, decvax!cca}!absolut!bill Absolut Software 617-232-8377 2001 Beacon Street Boston, MA 02146-4227