Ref: 02880038
Title: Why OS2INIT.CMD is REMmed Out in 3+Open 1.1E
Date: 12/13/90

Copyright 3Com Corporation, 1991.  All rights reserved.

In 3+Open LAN Manager 1.1E, the OS2INIT.CMD located in the root directory
of C: has all of its lines REMarked out.  This is because OS2INIT.CMD is
needed only for OS/2 1.0.  The environment for all screen groups in OS/2 1.1
and later is set from CONFIG.SYS via SET PATH= statements.  OS/2 1.0 did not
allow the setting of global environment variables in CONFIG.SYS.  The only
way to make sure that a path pointed to the correct location of the network
executables was to have "/k c:\os2init.cmd" appended to the COMSPEC= statement,
so that it would be executed every time a new screen group was started.

After OS/2 1.1 was released, environment variables could be set in CONFIG.SYS
and they would behave as "global" environment variables; all screen groups
started would inherit whatever had been set in CONFIG.SYS.  This made
OS2INIT.CMD obsolete, but it was left in the package in case someone installed
LAN Manager 1.1 on top of OS/2 1.0.

In 3+Open 1.1E, OS2INIT.CMD still gets called, but with all the lines REMarked
out, it is a null operation.
