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From: jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Confusion Reigns)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Bypassing Program Manager, undocumented switches
Message-ID: <7338@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 31 May 90 00:46:01 GMT
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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To prevent Windows 3 from loading Program Manager on startup, edit your
system.ini file and in the line under [boot] starting with "shell=", change
"progman.exe" to whatever you want it to load instead.  I've set up batch
files to swap system.ini files so I can get the extra memory for Excel
(still waiting for the upgrade to arrive...).

At the same time as I noticed that, I also saw two undocumented switches, as
used in these lines in setup.inf:

[data]

<several lines deleted>

    ;  Name of a program invoked after completing setup
    exec    = "win.com"
    execcmd = "/r /q:"
		  ^^^

and

    ; this is the cmd line that is executed for the online docs
    readme = "notepad /.setup readme.txt"
		      ^^^^^^^

Anyone know what these do?  I tried starting windows with the /q option, but
I just get "Application not found" errors.  The notepad switch has no
readily apparent effect.

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Jason Merrill				jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu