but can't find any information on it anywhere, that any program can be
used as a shell. i always thought that there had to be specific
program entry and exit points for something to be used as a shell; for
example, I used "setshell.exe" from litestep to change my shell from
explorer to aol and it worked. changed it again from aol to
"winfile.exe" from nt4. both times it worked. like i said, i can't
find any info on this so i thought i'd pass it along. (this is very
handy for those many child proof apps that double as shells or
launchers, such as child proof by, i think, mark overmars)

Yes, its not obvious, but it does indeed work.
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"*ProteanThread*" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> but can't find any information on it anywhere, that any program can be
> used as a shell. i always thought that there had to be specific
> program entry and exit points for something to be used as a shell; for
> example, I used "setshell.exe" from litestep to change my shell from
> explorer to aol and it worked. changed it again from aol to
> "winfile.exe" from nt4. both times it worked. like i said, i can't
> find any info on this so i thought i'd pass it along. (this is very
> handy for those many child proof apps that double as shells or
> launchers, such as child proof by, i think, mark overmars)
>