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From: johnl@ima.ISC.COM (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Another twist on DOS environment sizes.
Message-ID: <1042@ima.ISC.COM>
Date: 2 Jun 88 01:46:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: ima.1042
References: <629@fxgrp.UUCP> <4598@dasys1.UUCP> <835@acornrc.UUCP> <14488@mirror.TMC.COM> <849@acornrc.UUCP>
Reply-To: johnl@ima.UUCP (John R. Levine)
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In article <849@acornrc.UUCP> bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman) writes:
>
>Because, as mentioned in an earlier article today, specifying
>  shell=command.com /e:nnnn
>in config.sys prevents execution of autoexec.bat.  ...

You need the /P flag.  I use the following under PCDOS 3.3:

shell = \sys\command.com /E:350 /P

(My system files are all in a directory called \sys.)  It runs autoexec
just fine.  Incidentally, page 4-43 of the PC DOS 3.3 manual, which
documents the SHELL command, has a paragraph at the end specifically
explaining this.
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