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From: Denis Bernard <dbernard AT teleglobe DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: How do I solve the problem of "Cannot find command.com, system halted?"
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 15:01:45 -0500
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Steve Hickman wrote:
> 
> In article <4ienei$l5d AT apollo DOT isisnet DOT com> bcarson AT ra DOT isisnet DOT com (cyberbob) writes:
> >From: bcarson AT ra DOT isisnet DOT com (cyberbob)
> >Subject: How do I solve the problem of "Cannot find command.com, system halted?"
> >Date: 16 Mar 1996 15:41:06 GMT
> 
> >I run win 3x have dos 6.22 and recieve the message: "invalid
> >command.com, system halted." Help is appreciated at
> >bcarson AT ra DOT isisnet DOT com
> 
> Your system is telling you it tried to refresh COMMAND.COM and couldn't
> find it.  Be sure your COMSPEC environment variable is valid.  Use the SET
> command (just type SET then press Enter) to see where your system expects
> to find COMMAND.COM then be sure its really there, or code SET COMSPEC
> in your AUTOEXEC.BAT to set the variable with the full path of a valid
> COMMAND.COM (e.g., SET COMSPEC=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM).

Also, running a virus check may be a good idea ;-)

Denis.