Subj : Re: 4BATFAQ Update To : Outsider From : Jasen Betts Date : Fri Jan 25 2002 10:44 pm Hi Outsider. 25-Jan-02 07:48:28, Outsider wrote to Steve O> From: Outsider O> E. S. (Steve) Fabian wrote: ....snipped >> All operating systems for all computer systems designed in the >> mmid-1960s or later always came with a command processor bundled >> in. O> Command.com is an intregal part of MSDOS, not a bundled in O> anything! It's about as integrated as internet exploder is in windoze... if you install something else than can do the same stuff you remove it and not miss it. on some versions of dos if using 4dos you format/s or sys a drive it'll install 4dos instead of command.com how integrated is that? O> MSDOS consists of three mandatory files and the standard external O> DOS commands shipped with each distribution O> The three files are io.sys, msdos.sys and command.com. In MSDOS 7.x O> versions, the functions of msdos.sys were combined with io.sys, so O> msdos.sys is optional and command.com can be reoplaced with 4dos, (either by tweaking an option or by renaming 4dos) -=> Bye <=- --- * Origin: Optimization hinders evolution. (3:640/531.42) .