Subj : Re: Copy to file or directory? Help? Calling MS-Dos? To : meirman From : meirman Date : Sat Feb 02 2002 08:57 pm From: meirman@f3.n342.z1.cereal.mv.com (meirman) Subject: Re: Copy to file or directory? Help? Calling MS-Dos? From: meirman In comp.os.msdos.4dos on Fri, 01 Feb 2002 14:25:14 -0500 meirman posted: >In comp.os.msdos.4dos on Fri, 01 Feb 2002 18:32:19 GMT >raster@highfiber.com (Charles Dye) posted: > >> >>At a guess, you don't have a copy of COMMAND.COM in your search >>path (i.e. in your \DOS directory.) > >Well, I thought I had the right version of command.com in the C:\ >directory, but a week ago, doing something else, I found I didn't, so >I copied it over from the dos6 directory. But it doesn't seem to have >taken. Dang. Copying it over again made it work. Thanks. This time, two virus checkers pointed out that command.com had changed, so I guess I didn't copy it to the right place last time. I wonder where I put that new copy! >However, next step. If I go to the dos5 directory and enter "command", >it still says "incorrect dos version". Admittedly, when I do "ver" it >gives the version of both 4dos and dos. But how does it know what >version of dos to say? Sure the dos6 directory is in the path, and >I've used some dos6 commands, but in what way am I running version 6 >of Dos? Is it just that I've used some commands like smartdrv, himem, >and emm386? I've thought about this some more, and it occurs to me that 4DOS still uses the io.sys and msdos.sys files, which are I suppose specifically version 6! I suppose that's how it knows. meirman@QQQerols.com If you email me, please let me know whether remove the QQQ or not you are posting the same letter. -- |Fidonet: meirman 1:342/3 | | Origin: The Cereal Port BBS (603)899-3335 199.125.78.133 (1:132/152) --- # Origin: (1:132/152.4) * Origin: Baddog BBS (1:218/903) .