Hi Ken.

13-Feb-03 06:18:00, Ken Hrynchuk wrote to Paul Quinn


 KH> Here's where the plot thickens. I made a temporary VS.BAT, for testing
 KH> purposes, that ran MEM/D/P, then DEBUG; and it wouldn't terminate,
 KH> either (?). MEM's output did contain something interesting, though:
 KH>

 KH> 00600                 96    (0K)  COMMAND      Data
 KH> 00606                272    (0K)  MEM          Environment
 KH> 00617             90,400   (88K)  MEM          Program
 KH>
 KH> Aside from a few bytes less for the prompt, (I add to mine, usually)
 KH> I also discovered that "windir" wasn't being set, in VS.BAT's
 KH> environment. I tried setting it explicitly, in the .BAT, but it didn't
 KH> help. Is it possible that "Data" (which doesn't exist, in
a 'normal' DOS
 KH> window) is being overwritten, but only intermittently?

Data is used by command.com whil eit interprets the bat file.
after the end of the bat file data is dropped.

sometimees I would make the pif/shortcut run "command /c batfile"
instead of just running "batfile" because it would give me
differtent options - have you tried that?

 -=> Bye <=-

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