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From: pkopp@potpourri.UUCP (Paul Kopp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Re: command.com in RAM drive...
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Date: 3 Jun 88 19:38:30 GMT
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in article <1653@hubcap.UUCP>, oolidjr@hubcap.UUCP (Joe Moll) says:
> Xref: gould comp.sys.ibm.pc:12923 comp.sys.tandy:640
>>>From article <26530@clyde.ATT.COM>, by meb@floyd.ATT.COM:
> Eric Wickberg writes in responce ...
>>From: eric@umb.umb.edu (Eric Wickberg)
>>Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc

[ all kinds of stuff deleted about command.com on a ram disk.]

I tried this too.  Well, actually, I was trying to move command.com out of
my root directory (same kind of thing).  To move this file, I had to do
TWO things.

1)   set COMSPEC = c:\dos\command.com      <---- in autoexec.bat  and

2)   command = c:\dos\command.com /p       <---- in config.sys (from
                                                 memory; I'm pretty sure
                                                 this is right.

Everything worked fine until I tried to format a floppy with the sys
option (format a:/s).  I kept getting prompted to place a disk with
command.com in drive a:.  I found the solution to this problem.  It
seems that in order to format a floppy with the "sys" option, the two
hidden files (msdos.sys and io.sys) needed to be in the same directory
pointed to by the above statements.  After I copied the two files over,
everything worked "as advertised." Now I'm not sure (because I haven't
tried it), but you're probably going to run into the same problem when
you move command.com to a ram disk.

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Paul Kopp                                   The opinions (if any) expressed
Gould Inc., Computer Systems Division       are my own.
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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