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From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Bad command or file name error
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 19:51:19 CST
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> I have acess to a Win2k machine, which incidentally I've been the fist
> user to put a shortcut in the Desktop to a 'MS-DOS prompt', and never
> saw anything similar to this behaviour! The machine has its pristine
> configuration files, so I wonder if Hans is not correct in his
> wanderings!

I've got more Windows 2000 systems than I care to count.  A quick test
showed that some of them show this problem - but others don't!  

By putting some echo statements into autoexec.nt, I was able to track the
problem down (on one system) to a statement helpfully migrated to my 
autoexec.nt that didn't didn't work under command.com.

REM'ing this made the problem disappear.  Who knows what else is going on
with all the boxes out there ...