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Article #8783Re: Need to change name of AUTOEXEC
From: Allen J Michielsen
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1991 22:01
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1991 22:01
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In article <1991Mar29.163548.29870@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> s907396@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Miramar) writes: >chrisb@hubcap.clemson.edu (Chris Behrens) writes: >>that COMMAND.COM looks for when booting ?? By default, it looks for and >>executes AUTOEXEC, i want to name it something else, maybe place it in a >>subdirectory or something. > >You can do that by altering COMMAND.COM itself using a binary editor. I >used Norton Utilities' NU.EXE to do it. Edit COMMAND.COM and search for the >string 'AUTOEXEC.BAT' and change it to whatever you want. I try to use names >of the same length as 'AUTOEXEC.BAT' so as not to complicate things. This is exactlt right. You can put it anywhere and call it anything, but probably NOBODY should try changing the length of the string used. so: command. com has the string autoexec.bat in it, so if you use something like \hide\at.bat this will work just fine.... al -- Al. Michielsen, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Syracuse University InterNet: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu amichiel@sunrise.acs.syr.edu Bitnet: AMICHIEL@SUNRISE
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!rodan.acs.syr.edu!amichiel From: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen) Subject: Re: Need to change name of AUTOEXEC Message-ID: <1991Mar30.220107.6276@rodan.acs.syr.edu> Sender: amichiel@sunrise.acs.syr.edu Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY References: <1991Mar28.190057.3441@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1991Mar29.163548.29870@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> Date: Sat, 30 Mar 91 22:01:07 GMT