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- SYSTEM RECONFIGURATION/REBOOT UTILITY
-
- This utility program will replace your current CONFIG.SYS and
- AUTOEXEC.BAT files with a specified pair of CONFIG and AUTOEXEC
- files, then reboot.
-
- The command format is "RECONFIG ext", where "ext" is a 3-byte
- configuration identifier.
-
- For example, suppose you have a standard configuration containing
- a virtual disk, print spooler and Sidekick. But sometimes you
- need to use your system's storage for large speadsheets. So, you
- set-up two configurations: the standard one is specified in files
- named "CONFIG.STD" and "AUTOEXEC.STD", and the large-memory
- configuration is in "CONFIG.BIG" and "AUTOEXEC.BIG".
-
- When you enter "RECONFIG BIG", the contents of CONFIG.BIG are
- copied to CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BIG into AUTOEXEC.BAT. Then
- RECONFIG reboots your PC and the large-memory configuration is in
- effect.
-
- Later, when you want to use the standard configuration, you enter
- "RECONFIG STD". RECONFIG copies your standard configuration into
- CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT and then reboots.
-
- There is no restriction on the number of configurations you can
- have. Each one is represented by a pair of "CONFIG.ext" and
- "AUTOEXEC.ext" files, where "ext" is the configuration identifier.
- The choice of "ext" identifiers is entirely up to your tastes.
- (You can not specify "ext" as "BAT" or "SYS" because of conflicts
- with the standard boot-time filename extensions.)
-
- RECONFIG looks for the CONFIG and AUTOEXEC files in the root
- directory of the disk drive you booted from. Make sure that the
- boot diskette is in the A: drive if you booted from diskette. For
- hard disk systems, make sure that there is no diskette in the A:
- drive; a reboot attempts to boot from diskette before going to
- the hard disk. (Technical note: the boot drive is taken from the
- COMSPEC in the DOS environment. If you've altered the COMSPEC,
- RECONFIG may not work.)
-
- If you manually reboot (Ctrl-Alt-Del), the configuration in effect
- at that time will remain. You must enter a RECONFIG command to
- change it.
-
- The contents of a virtual disk, print spool buffer, unsaved
- Sidekick notepad, etc. will disappear when you enter the RECONFIG
- command. As with any system reboot, you are responsible for
- preserving such RAM-resident data.
-
- RECONFIG preserves the file attribute bytes (e.g., read-only) of
- all the CONFUG and AUTOEXEC files. This feature is important for
- those of us who protect important files from accidental erasure
- by making them read-only.
-
- Written and placed in the public domain by:
-
- Glen F. Marshall
- 1006 Gwilym Circle
- Berwyn, PA 19312
-