Re: Need to change name of AUTOEXEC

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From: The Monk!
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1991 20:26

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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.
>

Chris,
  I know this probably doesn't help much, but DEBUG.COM is what you could
use.  I don't know the address's for the changes but about six months back
PCMagazine had a little sidebar on the subject (They were suggesting this to
protect your AUTOEXEC.BAT from ill-tempered install programs.  PC-Magnet is
probably the best place to search for the issue and volume #..

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