Hi,
When I run SOME DOS apps, not all, command.com loads and cmd.exe unloads. Here is a partial environment 'dump'
BEFORE________
c:\TEMP>set
>>=settings.1
ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
APPDATA=C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data
CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files
COMPUTERNAME=BIG933
ComSpec=C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe
HOMEDRIVE=C:
AFTER______________________
C:\TEMP>set
COMSPEC=C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\COMMAND.COM
>>=settings.1
ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\DOCUME~1\ALLUSE~1
APPDATA=C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\APPLIC~1
COMMONPROGRAMFILES=C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1
COMPUTERNAME=BIG933
HOMEDRIVE=C:
_____________________________
Notice that the the new COMSPEC is not in alphabetical order like anything else added. But that's not nearly the weirdest part.
I can make no sense of which progs cause this effect. Borland C++ does it: BC or BCC or CPP.
XDEL, copyright Digital Research 1987 [!] does NOT.
It gets weirder. When command.com loads the 'command history' [sorta like doskey] goes away. I figured OK, I'll load doskey. I type doskey /insert. Prompt comes back. But there's no doskey. Can't arrow up to earlier commands. And I checked mem/c and it's not there.
I have a batch file which says 'exit' ; no quotes ; because I'm not a great typist. When I type x and press return with cmd.exe running, it exits cmd. When I type x and press return with command.com running, it just sits there.
When I type exit and press return it exits. But it doesn't just exit command.com and go back to cmd.exe. It ends the 'DOS box' session.
BTW, the x bat file works in 5.0 6.22 and 98se.
This one really has me amazed and confused.
Any contestants?
M2
