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From: pyro@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Leedell Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Boot of A:, switch to C:?
Summary: Faster bootup
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Date: 6 Dec 90 16:38:47 GMT
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While placing the line
set comspec=c:\command.com
in your autoexec solves the problem, you can speed things up measurably by
copying your a:\autoexec.bat to c:\autoexec.bat and changing your
a:\autoexec.bat to the following one line batch file:

@c:\autoexec

This will execute your autoexec from C (which means MUCH faster disk access
to read the batch file's lines).  The @ prevents the command from being
echoed to the screen before execution.  (This was introduced in DOS 3.3, I
believe, so it should also work for your DOS 4.x system.)
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