COMSPEC

Use COMSPEC in the login script to execute DOS commands from the network. Specify the directory where DOS and the DOS command processor (COMMAND.COM) are loaded.

COMSPEC is originally set when DOS is booted. It must be reset after you log in to change the location that COMMAND.COM loads from while you are logged in to the network.

COMSPEC has the following command format:

COMSPEC=[path]COMMAND.COM

Replace path with either a drive letter or a full directory path beginning with the NetWare volume name.

Follow these guidelines for using COMSPEC:

• If users are running DOS from a network directory, first map a search drive in the login script to that directory and then add the COMSPEC command to the login script.

  (You may want to map a fake root to the DOS directory. For information about mapping a fake root, see ``MAP''.

• If all users use the same version of DOS from the network, you can add the COMSPEC command to the container login script.

• If more than one version of DOS is available on your network, a network directory should exist for each DOS version. In this case, you can put COMSPEC commands in either profile or user login scripts, to make sure each workstation accesses the version of DOS it needs.

• If users are running DOS from their local drives, do not add COMSPEC to login scripts.

• To use an environment variable as the value in a COMSPEC command, precede it with the percent sign (%), as follows:
  
  COMSPEC=%environment variable