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posted by Laaca , Czech republic, 30.07.2009, 08:21

There is one case when has sense to modify the COMSPEC variable.
It is running the secondary shell.

Try to write on command line "COMMAND". It will start a new instance (copy) of the command interpretter. You can end it and return into previous instantion by "EXIT" command.
Variant of this trick use various file managers like Norton commander. In this case you can by specifying the COMSPEC variable define which secondary shell will be used.

However I am not sure whether secondary shell completely overtakes the work of the primary command interpretter or if they work together in some way.

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Complete thread:

• loading of command.com - Vehudis, 29.07.2009, 10:30 (Users)
  • loading of command.com - Laaca, 29.07.2009, 20:36
    • loading of command.com - Vehudis, 29.07.2009, 20:48
      • loading of command.com - Rugxulo, 29.07.2009, 21:47
      • loading of command.com - ecm, 29.07.2009, 23:45
        • loading of command.com - Laaca, 30.07.2009, 08:21
          • loading of command.com - ecm, 30.07.2009, 08:50
            • loading of command.com - Ninho, 08.08.2009, 13:37