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From: aland@infmx.UUCP (Dr. Scump)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: What files MUST be in the root directory?
Summary: how many parms for SHELL ?
Message-ID: <2120@infmx.UUCP>
Date: 16 Aug 89 00:17:42 GMT
References: <189@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <16741@ut-emx.UUCP>
Reply-To: aland@infmx.UUCP (alan denney)
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In article <16741@ut-emx.UUCP> nather@ut-emx.UUCP (Ed Nather) writes:
|I keep command.com in a directory I call "systm", and have the following
|line in my config.sys file:
|
|shell=c:\systm\command.com  c:\systm /P /E:32
|
|which tells the MS-DOS startup routines where to find command.com on
|boot-up (the first entry), where to find it for reloading, if need be
|(the second entry), makes this permanent (the /P) and sets aside
|32 paragraphs of environment space (I'm using DOS 3.1.  For DOS 3.3
|you would use E:512 to set aside 512 bytes, the same as 32 paragraphs.
|This change is brought to you by the Upward Compatibility Group at
|Microsoft, at no extra charge whatsoever.).
|Ed Nather

Where is that second parameter (c:\systm) documented?  It sure isn't
in the PC-DOS 3.3 manual (see pp. 4-42)  does it apply to earlier 
versions of DOS only?  Is it undocumented?  Is it necessary?

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