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In <127136@linus.mitre.org> dhf@tatum.mitre.org (David H. Friedman) writes:

>.  I'm looking for a good way to set up a DOS window with some TSR's
>loaded, specifically CED and the PC Magazine SETUP2 utility. I've
>been using a PIF to run (windowed, in 800x600) a file COMMAND.BAT
>that looks like

>         ced
>         setup2 myprintr.pmf
>         command

>(details of what goes wrong when you do this omitted)

One solution is to replace some of the MicroSloth software with
something that's a little better designed.  I use 4DOS instead of
command.com, which eliminates the need for ced, but that still leaves
a couple of TSRs I need, at least until I find Windows replacements
for them.  But 4DOS also lets you pass it an initial command as an
argument.  (This was meant to get around the line-size limit in
config.sys.)  Make that argument the name of a BAT file with your
initialization commands, and you're home free.

But while we're automating everything, it'd be nice if this command
were itself run automatically when you start up windows.  I had
resigned myself to doing without this until I'd figured out all those
.ini files, when I ran accross Command Post.  I originally tried CP
just as an alternative to the File Manager, but it also has a sort of
windows manipulation language that can automatically do various stuff
when CP starts.  And if you reconfigure windows to use CP in place of
the Program Manager and/or Task Manager, this all happens
automatically when you run windows.

CP has some problems, not the least of which is Profligate Menuitis.
The language I just mentioned is called the "Command Post Menu
Language", and it's mainly meant to setup up complicated command bar
menus.  (The author seems to prefer getting lost in umpteem menus to
tripping over a zillion icons.)  The startup feature is just a sort of
side effect of this.  What's really frustrating is that CPML stops just
sort of being a real batch language for Windows.  Maybe in the next
version....  In any case, the parts of CP I can live with are
indispensible (how can I use a system that doesn't do batch stuff?), so
I guess I'll have to register it.

Both of the above programs are shareware.  I can't ftp, so ask
somebody else where to find them.
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