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From: "Mark Habersack" <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 01:32:56 +0100
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Once upon a time (on  5 Feb 97 at 20:47) mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on. said:

> > Ah! Didn't know that - that's the solution I was looking for! Thanks, so
> > far I used the autocon package (from simtel in msdos/bootutl)
> 
> THANK GOD FOR THAT ONE!!!!  I'll have to try it out ASAP!!
It's really good.

> > Also you can freely use the SELECT statement in that file - neat! But
                                ^^^^^^should be SWITCH ;-)

> > And you can share the autoexec.bat between M$-DOG and OpenDOS by simply
> > setting CONFIG in DCONFIG.SYS to the current configuration name, just as
> > M$-DOG does in behind the scenes. Or even do 'goto %OS%' - if there's no
> > OS set, it will do nothing and process the M$-DOG part, if OS is set - you
> > move to the OD part. Neat(2)!
> 
> Why share AUTOEXEC.BAT's when you can specify the batch file to
I'm sometimes lazy ;-))

> run as a command line parameter to OpenDOS's COMMAND.COM?  4DOS
> also allows you to specify the PATH\FILENAME for an alternate
> batch file to run as well.  This way you can have separate
> AUTOEXEC.BAT's AND CONFIG.SYS's.
4DOS is quite a different piece of cake - it is *THE* shell!! With 4DOS you 
don't need autoexec at all, just 4START.BTM

> I can't get the *alleged* 640k either. *YET*.  How does one load
> stuff *ABOVE* the 1M point anyway?  
It's possible thanks to DPMS. The specification allows device drivers to run 
from within the XMS memory without leaving PM at any time. I think it should 
be the future of OpenDOS drivers.

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