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Re: Currently Seeking Auto Execs

• Posted by Travis Beaty <travisbeaty at arn.net> Jun 26, 2001
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Howdy!

> Howdy pardner! lol

<TIP SRC="Cowboy Hat">Good evening, ma'am.</TIP>

> Yes, it is. I routinely make all my hardrives bootable,, in either dos 5, dos
> 6.22, or win95. The startup files files on each drive are different. Plus,
> win95
> makes an autoexec.dos for dos boots in win95. Course, i don't use the
> 20megabyte
> harddrive much anymore. Will you modify the win95 boot autoexec or the dos
> boot
> autoexec?

Well, I'm aiming for the DOS boot autoexec.bat, which on my system is 
c:\autoexec.bat.  I figure this would be best because 1) I know where the dang 
thang is, and 2)because the DOS interpreter will be installed right along with 
the Win32 version.  The only other concern that I have is that, when I first 
got this computer, autoexec.bat had the "hidden" attribute set.  That being the 
case, I'm concerned that this is standard behavior for WinME installations ... 
after all, the user must be protected from himself.  >

> Err, there is also the linux version that exists on the harddrive only as a
> file
> image? I don't think you can modify that from the other OS.

I've seen what you're talking about -- Linux Mandrake 8.0 offers this as well, 
although I risked sudden doom and repartitioned.  BeOS, may it rest in peace, 
does the same thing ... the OS is contained in a 50M Windows file.  I've found 
that Windows files can be modified from Linux, but Linux files cannot be 
modified from Windows.  Windows apparently is antisocial and doesn't play well 
with others.

> /me plugs Travis into the Matrix and reconfigures reality for him.... feel all
> better? 

No, it attempted to access my brain, and reported "Cannot read from specified 
device."

Thanks, Kat!

Travis Beaty
Claude, Texas.