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from: VIC BATES
date: 1998-04-13 22:34:00
subject: win95 dos prompt properties

I have 4dos setup as primary shell in my config.sys file...
shell=c:\4dos\4dos.com c:\4dos /P
In win95 I have a shortcut desktop icon setup to run 4dos, because for some 
reason even though it's the primary shell it doesn't automatically run when
I open a dos prompt.
Doing it this way I'm also able to open a normal MSdos box from win95 using 
the normal dos prompt menu option.  But the only problem I had with this was 
MSDOS didn't like my 4dos prompt too much. In the prog properties for the dos 
prompt where the command line etc is specified there's a section to setup a 
batch file which is automatically run. I thought I'd use this to change the 
prompt to something command.com can handle. Problem is that whenever I 
specify anything here 4dos always starts instead of command.com, no matter 
what!
It doesn't matter that command.com is specified as the program command line, 
as soon as I specify a batch file/command to be run 4dos starts instead of 
command.com!   The only way I've found to get around this is to use the /K 
switch after the command line.  Is this a win95 problem or something wrong 
with how I've setup 4dos?
Rgds, Vic
--- GoldED/386 2.50+43UK1
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