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From: Charles Dye <raster AT highfiber DOT com>
Subject: Re: DR-DOS 7.03:  bug in Install-procedure??
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At 03:43 AM 8/6/00 +0200, you wrote:

>I found that the DRDOS boot-procedure starts by reading DConfig.sys but was
>_always_ followed by reading the Win95 Autoexec.bat-file; so the 
>DRDOS-specific
>commands were not executed or installed.
>
>This behaviour was independent of the used command-processor: DRDOS 
>Command.com
>or 4DOS.com.
>
>I tried to find the program that called the Autoexec.bat file.
>Finally - using a hex-editor - I found this entry in the command-processors
>[drdos]Command.com, respectively [4dos6]4Dos.com.
>The first 'Autoexec'-entry in both files is the one to be changed to
>'AutoDOS7'.
>
>Testing both command-processors I found that the correct procedure was 
>used now:
>it starts by reading 'DConfig.sys', then the used (changed) 
>commandprocessor is
>loaded, which reads 'AutoDOS7.bat'.

Well, that's one way, I guess.  But instead of patching the command shells,
I think it would be far preferable to simply set up your SHELL statement
correctly:

SHELL=C:\DRDOS\COMMAND.COM  C:\DRDOS  /E:512  /P:AUTO.BAT

SHELL=C:\4DOS\4DOS.COM  C:\4DOS  /E:512  /P:AUTO.BAT

(I use AUTO.BAT instead of AUTODOS7.BAT simply because it's easier
to type.  This is a generic example -- I notice that your file locations are
different.)

Don't know why the setup program didn't do this for you automatically, but
anyhow the /P switch is the correct way to handle this.  If you patch the
default autostart filename in the executables, of course, the patched shell
will default to AUTODOS7.BAT (or whatever) no matter which operating
system it's running under.

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