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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 14:42:56 -0800
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Help with allegro!!!
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Paul Derbyshire wrote:
> 
> At 07:29 PM 2/28/99 +0200, you wrote:
> >
> >On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Paul Derbyshire wrote:
> >
> >> As for removing it altogether, you must have a mighty peculiar definition
> >> of a "fully functional OS". An OS with no user interface? You boot it, and
> >> then.........what? :-)
> >
> >I launch Emacs from the Startup directory ;-).
> 
> In the autoexec.bat? Guess what interprets that...your friend command.com :-)

Not always... my config.sys contains

SHELL=C:\4DOS40\4DOS.COM

and I have all sorts of nifty 4DOS-specific stuff in AUTOEXEC.BAT.  I
haven't talked to command.com in a long time.
-- 

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com