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- From: gilligan@camelot.bradley.edu (Edward Henigin)
- Subject: Re: Gotta hack into DOS's COMMAND.COM :-(
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 21:55:55 GMT
- Approved: Who me? hell no . . .
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- Minor hack of command.com file:
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- My machine (MS-DOS piece-o-crap) would not read autoexec.bat upon
- boot. Slightly annoying, to say the least. I had no idea what was
- going on, and getting frustrated. I tryed changing directorys, changin
- the attribute of autoexec.bat . . etc etc etc . .
-
- then finally, I fired up ol' Norton's Disk Editor, and searched command.com
- (<ctrl>-<s>) for 'autoex' . . . and . . . found a mention of autoexec.bat,
- and following it was a mention of some file I had never heard of,
- 'startup.bat'. So, I renamed autoexec.bat to startup.bat, and it's worked
- ever since.
-
- Of course, programs like QEMM which look for autoexec.bat and don't find
- it get screwed up . . and friends who use the system are confused . . but
- I think it's kind of neat.
-
- ed
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