Billy Bob : Pop-up program support

Hi Billy Bob and board members.
I mention Billy Bob in the post title as we have exchanged many thoughts
about exitig DOS programs in Win98SE. So here is the background ...
I recently recreated config.sys on my root drive, to try and get a better
control of high memory. PC boots OK.
My batch programs that save my registry files daily, started giving me this ....
"Microsoft Windows Pop-Up Program Support ..." at the end of the commands.
I can exit the paused .bat OK with ctrl+c
Look here what I found from MS KB ..
here
What the KB article says works (nearly), but my questions are
1) the bat files worked fine before I recreated config.sys
No halt at end of commands.
Why not run OK after changes eg config.sys ?
2) what does command.com /c do ?

Different from ctrl+alt+del and different from "exit" ??

regards

PS I have solved these problems but I do not understand the reasons for
them occurring.

 

I don't think it will do anything. Or at the DOS Prompt ( where I just took a peek ) in 98SE it returns " Bad Command or file name."

Just C: or D: will take you to the root folder of the C or D drives.

Or C:/Windows will take you there.

Sometimes need to play with the / and \ .

BillyBob

 

Create a one-line batch file that reads:
command.com /c
That's a quote from the KB article. /c is a parameter.
Of course, you have to put the full path in front of it.
You cannot use command.com /c from a DOS prompt, but only in a pif
or bat.
regards
PS command.com /c
does more than nothing - it closes a bat app that Windows regards
as a himem fixed entity TSR.
Or what do you think ?

 

The article that merlin pointed to seems to be applied to Win95 and lower.

But I see no reason why it should not work the same in 98FE or SE.

BillyBob