Commodore PC Ms-Dos 3.2 User's Manual page 327

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Appendix B How to Configure Your System 255
Shell Shell
' Purpose:
Begins execution of the shell (top-level command processor) from
f~*\ a file defined by the specified pathname.
Syntax:
^-v shell = [drive: pathname
Comments:
^—s The pathname option specifies the program that ms-dos uses
as a command processor. Instead of reading the standard
command com, ms-dos starts the processor specified in pathname.
^—n System programmers who write their own command processors
(instead of using the ms-dos file, commandcom) should also use
shell
(^ Example:
The following command uses the file \bin\newshell as the com- Setting the command
-^ mand processor: processor shell
shell=\bin\new5hell
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