os2hardwarel{at}wpusa.dynip.com schreef:

>actually, i copied a MSDOS 5 command.com onto a PCDOS 5 boot disk and
it worked... however, i 
>
Thanks for trying it out.
Good to see at least one person doesn't want to rely on wild guesses alone.

>ran into troubles with win98se's command.com but it was due to bad
sectors on the floppy... i'm now hunting my original PCDOS 5 disk so i can
try again...
>
>FWIW: DOS 6 and up are the ones that (finally) don't care where
command.com resides on the disk(ette)...
>
They do actually, the default is the root. If you don't want(ed) it in 
the root, you have to set it's (command.com) in the config.sys, with a 
specific entry of which I have forgotten the exact syntax but is 
something like
shell=C:\Dos\COMMAND.COM C:\Dos


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Groeten uit Gent,

   Kris



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