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- BOOT.DOC
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- BOOT is a utility that will warm start your PC using a DOS command. I
- originally wrote this program so I could reboot from a BAT file. An
- example usage is a BAT file that swaps one AUTOEXEC.BAT file (or a
- CONFIG.SYS file) for another.
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- Example BAT file:
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- RENAME \CONFIG.SYS \TEMP.SYS
- RENAME \OLD.SYS \CONFIG.SYS
- RENAME \TEMP.SYS \OLD.SYS
- BOOT
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- One very useful side effect is that the DOS call I use bypasses the
- Winchester controller board's firmware reset routines. This reduces
- the reboot time by 20-30 seconds on my machine! I have used BOOT for
- a year now and have seen no problems associated with bypassing the
- reset routines.
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- In addition to this DOC file and the actual BOOT programs, the
- original BOOT.ARC file contains two ASM files: BOOT1.ASM and
- BOOT2.ASM. The two files are included as examples for novice ASM
- programmers and demonstrate some of the coding differences required
- for .COM and .EXE program files. BOOT1.ASM results in a .COM version
- that is 97 bytes long. BOOT2.ASM is the .EXE version and results in a
- program that is 686 bytes long.
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- Brad Stephenson
- Jenison, MI
- August 1, 1986
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