User Guide

ERD Commander 2002
Winternals Software LP Page 51
23 Running External Commands
The ERD Commander 2002 operating environment allows you to run Win32
applications other than those included on your product CD. Such External
Commands may be found on the volumes of the computer that you wish to
repair, or on the network. However, because the ERD Commander 2002
environment is different than that of Windows, many applications launched
within it either behave incorrectly or fail to run. It should also be noted that
different Windows installations provide different versions of many commands,
so a particular External Command found on one system may work, while that
found on another system may not. For these reasons Winternals Software
does not warrant or support use of commands other than those found on your
ERD Commander 2002 product CD.
ERD Commander 2002 displays a dialog box warning you any time you
launch an external command from the ERD Commander 2002 shell or an
ERD Commander 2002 command prompt. If you wish to suppress the
external command dialog for commands launched from within the ERD
Commander 2002 command prompt, for instance when you execute batch
files that spawn them, you can set the AllowExternalCommand environment
variable to a value of "yes". If you do not want to allow the execution of any
external commands set the AllowExternalCommand environment variable to
"no". The default value of the variable is "warn".