Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 08:27:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
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, Evan Dickinson wrote:

> 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.

No you dont.  You need the full "/P:<fullpathandfilename>"
command line option to the command processor in the SHELL= line
of DCONFIG.SYS.

For example:

SHELL=C:\OPENDOS\COMMAND.COM C:\OPENDOS /P:C:\ODEXEC.BAT

      or for us 4DOS advocates...

SHELL=C:\4DOS\4DOS.COM C:\4DOS /P:C:\ODEXEC.BAT 

This tells the command processor to use ODEXEC.BAT *INSTEAD* of
AUTOEXEC.BAT.

As an interesting addition, one may pass parameters to the file
named in the /P: parameter.  This is true for 4DOS, I'm not sure
about COMMAND.COM in OpenDOS though.

Enjoy.

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