From: locke AT mcs DOT net (Peter Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: BASH as default DOS shell under Windows 98?
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 23:53:19 GMT
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Arg, you're right [insert foot into mouth].  Should have checked
before speaking :).  Still not certain whether it will work, though,
because of the CWSDPMI dependency.

Peter Johnson
locke AT mcs DOT net

On 4 Mar 99 20:33:43 GMT, mvparvia AT delta DOT hut DOT fi (Mikko V.I.
Parviainen) wrote:

>[On copying bash.exe as command.com]
>locke AT mcs DOT net (Peter Johnson) writes:
>>Um.. that would be a BAD idea.   Considering that command.com is NOT
>>an .exe file (.coms and .exes are loaded differently by DOS).
>
>Actually, I have the impression that command.com has been an exe file
>since at least MS-DOS 5.0. DOS determines the type of an executable
>from its internal structure, not file system name.
>
>If I recall correctly, one could run a file with any name as an 
>.exe-file, if only all relevant data is in the right place.   
>
>--