Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 00:07:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Evan Dickinson <evand AT wsunix DOT wsu DOT edu>
Reply-To: evand AT scn DOT org
cc: OpenDOS AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Question regarding Opendos and Win#95
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On Thu, 17 Apr 1997 wfp AT ziplink DOT net wrote:
> At 00:05 97-04-17 -0400, List Server at delorie.com wrote:
[snip]
> Even simpler than that, I think. OpenDOS should execute DCONFIG.SYS before
> it even touches CONFIG.SYS, so you should be able to name it that (instead
> of ODCFG.SYS) and have it chain to its own autoexec file, bypassing
> CONFIG.SYS entirely, and avoiding the error from Win95.
> 
> Oughtta work...

Using dconfig.sys works, OpenDOS won't execute config.sys after
dconfig.sys.  You can't, however, chain to a batch file from config.sys.
OpenDOS thinks the batch file is supposed to be part of config.sys.  So
you still need the 'if "%config%" ...' line in autoexec.bat.