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>In article <1991Mar28.190057.3441@hubcap.clemson.edu>, chrisb@hubcap.clemson.edu (Chris Behrens) writes:
> Is there a program that will allow me to change the name of the file
> 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. Simply running a different BAT file from
> within the AUTOEXEC is not what I want.
> 
> Any help appreciated...

  I normally use PC Tools for this purpose.

  I've used "dos\auto.bat" and "dos\cf.sys" for years without any
problem.  I also have COMMAND.COM as "dos\cmd.com" (and COMSPEC is point
to it)..  You can do this by modifying the two hidden system files on your
boot disk (you didn't hear this from me if you screw up your disk in the
process..  :-)  I like being able to type "del *.*" in my root directory
(and no, I don't type that on other people's machine and I don't like
read-only autoexec.bat & config.sys)

  Oh yeah, some dumb programs will insist on looking for C:\command.com
instead of looking at the COMSPEC environment variable..  You can have
a dummy c:\command.com in the root directory to keep these programs happy.

  One side effect:  The floppy disks you format will inherit this
behavior too.
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