From: md2828 AT mclink DOT it (Marco Salvalaggio) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: RE: Re: system() with command line options Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 22:04:46 GMT Message-ID: <3356a9e4.3393548@newmail.mclink.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, 11 Apr 1997 13:07:56 -0700, "John M. Aldrich" wrote: > >To the original poster: Try editing your 'config.sys'. Find the line >that says "SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM" or something similar. It might say >"COMSPEC" instead of "SHELL". Add " /E:2048" to the end of that line, >save, and reboot your computer. This can't hurt anything and may help >solve the problem. > Remember also to put a /P, otherwise COMMAND.COM will execute AUTOEXEC.BAT and immediately after will exit leaving you with a clean shell with default settings. Marco