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Julian A F Bradbury (Julian@xabcs.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: Re Win95 & Config/Autoexec
: I changed from an Adaptec (ASPICD.SYS) to NCR815 (CDROM.SYS)
: SCSI card, and made the appropriate changes as follows:-

: AUTOEXEC.BAT
:  LH /L:1,46544 C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MYCD0 /M:15 /L:F
:                                                 ^^^^^
: AUTOEXEC.DOS
:  LH /L:1,46544 C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MYCD0 /M:15 /L:F
:                                                 ^^^^^
: CONFIG.SYS
:  DEVICE=C:\NCRSCSI\CDROM.SYS /D:MYCD0
:                    ^^^^^^^^^    ^^^^^
: CONFIG.DOS
:  DEVICEHIGH /L:1,29376 =C:\NCRSCSI\CDROM.SYS /D:MYCD0
:                                    ^^^^^^^^^    ^^^^^

: Yet when I reboot Win95 into Win95s-DOS it STILL displays a line
: like the above, but with "ASPICD.SYS" and "/D:ASPICD0" on it!

: It is using a different autoexec. than EITHER of the above.
: All files exist, where they should etc.

: - WHERE is it getting it from? <scream>
: -- 
: ____________________________________________________________________________
: Julian A F Bradbury                               Ergonomist & IT Specialist


When 'shuting down to dos' [i.e., 'Restart the computer in MS-DOS Mode'
from the Shutdown panel], the file executed is C:\WINDOWS\DOSSTART.BAT
which was created based on the contents of your autoexec.bat at the time
you first installed win-95.

Clay_Schneider@att.com  [these are not the opinions of my employer --
                         no warranty implied -- your mileage may vary.]