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Specifies teh name and location of the command interpreter you want
FreeDOS to use. If you want to use your own command interpreter
(instead of COMMAND.COM), you can specify its name by adding a shell
command to your CONFIG.SYS file.
Syntax: SHELL=[[drive:]path]filename [parameters]
[[drive:]path]filename
Specifies location and name of the command interpreter you want
FreeDOS to use.
parameters
Specifies any command-line parameters or switches that can be used
with the specified command interpreter.
Default setting
The default command interpreter for FreeDOS is COMMAND.COM. If you do
not use a shell command in CONFIG.SYS, FreeDOS searches for COMMAND.COM
in the root directory of the startup drive. You need to use the shell
command if you want to specify a COMMAND.COM file that is not in the
root directory or if you do not want to use the default environment size
for COMMAND.COM.
Example:
If you add shell=freecom.com to your CONFIG.SYS file, and the FREECOM.COM
command interpreter accepts the switches /C, /F, and /J, you can now use
any of these switches on the shell command line.
SHELL=freecom.com /C /F /J
See Also:
Config.SYS
COMMAND.COM