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From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Shell command question
Keywords: shell msdos autoexec.bat
Message-ID: <1018@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 2 Jun 88 02:47:02 GMT
References: <1102@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Reply-To: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY
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In article <1102@cod.NOSC.MIL> desmond@cod.NOSC.MIL (J. Desmond) writes:
>I've noticed that using the shell= command in the config.sys file
>inhibits execution of the autoexec file on my Zenith 248.  Is this
>true of other clones?  Is there a way to inhibit the inhibition?
>Even shell=command.com does it.

I believe that you want to use "shell=command.com /p".  This tells command.com
that the invocation in question is the "login" shell.
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