Hallo Herr Joe Forster/STA,

am Montag, 19. Juli 2021 um 10:05 schrieben Sie:

> Hi guys,

>>> shell=c:\freedos\bin\command.com c:\freedos\bin /e:1024
>>> /p=c:\autoexec.bat /nls:c:\freedos\nls\command.es
>>
>> your approach has has a deep disadvantage for programs like
>> Norton/Volkow/Midnight Commander, make utilities, etc. that shell out
>> to a new instance of command.com.
>>
>> they will start a new instance of %COMSPEC% with IMO no way of giving
>> it any arguments, so you would run the english version instead of the
>> localized one.

> I always thought that these settings, unless overriden from the command
> line that launches COMMAND.COM, are inherited from the parent COMMAND.COM
> or the root (that is, SHELL= in CONFIG.SYS). Apparently, that's not true.
I didn't say this.

> But then all other settings go back to the default, too; e.g. the 
> environment size,
the environment size of the new command is a copy of the xyz commander
is a copy of the parent command, and has no environment size of it's
own, and doesn't need one.



>  although that's not as obvious as the language of DOS
> messages.

> Joe

Tom



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