Re: installation problems

On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Aitor Santamaria Merino wrote:

> (1) On the abscense of  SHELL=, KERNEL will run FreeCOM (COMMAND.COM)
> without arguments (?)

No. It runs
command.com /p /e:256

> (2) I guess that the first time FreeCOM is run, it is capable of
> identifying that there's no previous instance of itself, and that
> therefore, will execute AUTOEXEC.BAT. This does not happen for
> subsequent executions of FreeCOM

It sees the switch /p. That's all. Without /p, no autoexec.bat

> (3) Is it true that with the "/K filename" will refrain FreeCOM from
> looking for C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT, as it is going to be executed for the first
> time?

it will use filename instead of autoexec.bat if the /p option is used.
If the /p option is not used then it will just execute "filename" and
continue (and the /p influences the behaviour of "exit").

> It might happen that *BOTH* AUTOEXEC.BAT and filename are executed...

No. Unless "filename" contains "call autoexec.bat"

Bart