Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mandrill!gatech!udel!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!nelson 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 Lines: 12 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. -- char *reply-to-russ(int network) { if(network == BITNET) return "NELSON@CLUTX"; else return "nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu"; }