From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Please help an autoexec beginner
Date:	Sun, 22 Mar 1998 19:55:59 -0500
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Daniel Urquhart wrote:
> 
> Autoexec.bat has to be in the root directory of you'r boot drive.  It may be
> hiden as someone allredy said but it is there.  If you use win95 you ( if
> think) must have one and if you have a CD-ROM then you have one for sure,
> your CD wouldn't work without it !!!!!

Windows 95 is perfectly capable of starting without config.sys or
autoexec.bat files, as it loads all its own drivers internally and has
default settings for PATH, etc.  For a computer that has never had
anything but Windows 95 installed, it's normal to have no autoexec.bat. 
As far as CD-ROM drivers go, you only need one loaded in DOS if you plan
to run programs from MS-DOS mode.  Windows 95 also includes its own
CD-ROM drivers.

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