From:	mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Problems....
Date:	28 Apr 1997 13:20:41 GMT
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John M. Aldrich (fighteerNO AT SPAMcs DOT com) wrote:

: If you're running Win95, examine the DOS box properties sheet to make
: sure that the 'autoexec.bat' and 'config.sys' are set up properly (I'm
: not exactly sure how to do this, because I don't have Win95).

FYI this is actually a bad idea; it means that whenever you start a DOS
box it reboots the machine, using the custom startup files you give here,
and then when the DOS box finishes it reboots again to load Windows. 

Modifying C:\CONFIG.SYS and C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT is the correct thing to do in
Win95 as well as in DOS. If you like, though, you can not modify
AUTOEXEC.BAT and put the modifications in C:\WINDOWS\DOSSTART.BAT instead;
this is executed when starting DOS boxes. I would suggest modifying the
real AUTOEXEC.BAT though.

-- 
George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford

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