Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 5/3/83; site ukc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!pesnta!greipa!decwrl!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!rde From: rde@ukc.UUCP (R.D.Eager) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: MS-DOS braindamage Message-ID: <5288@ukc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 23:16:06 EDT Article-I.D.: ukc.5288 Posted: Thu Jul 4 23:16:06 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 05:42:13 EDT References: <229@timeinc.UUCP> <7700007@prism.UUCP> <748@ncoast.UUCP> Reply-To: rde@ukc.UUCP (Bob Eager) Organization: Computing Laboratory, U of Kent at Canterbury, UK Lines: 14 A recent article complained that COMMAND.COM wouldn't read the AUTOEXEC.BAT file after being patched. This may be too easy, but did you change the CONFIG.SYS file around that time? and put in a SHELL line without a /P? Lack of /P will cause the AUTOEXEC.BAT step to be missed out during initialisation..... -- Bob Eager rde@ukc.UUCP rde@ukc ...!mcvax!ukc!rde Phone: +44 227 66822 ext 7589