From: "Tim Sylvester" <ts AT teleport DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Bootable Program
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Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 01:43:30 GMT
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Add it to the AutoExec.bat on the floppy.  The floppy will have to be
formatted as bootable before this will work.  Other than that there is no
other way to do what you described. (except writing a replacement for the
operating system startup files like IO.SYS)

Collin Rose wrote in message <35428d53 DOT 0 AT news10 DOT kcdata DOT com>...
>Can anyone tell me how to make a program be bootable? For instance a
program
>called boot.exe is put on floppy. How can I make it so that when the disk
is
>in drive A at boot time the program boot.exe will be executed. Please send
>replies to collinrose AT voyager DOT net