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From: gt2341c@prism.gatech.EDU (Webb Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Autoexec/Config batch changer (?)
Summary: Batch file to swap batch files
Keywords: found
Message-ID: <19126@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 4 Jan 91 04:21:10 GMT
References: <1991Jan3.173437.8108@tc.fluke.COM>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Lines: 45

In article <1991Jan3.173437.8108@tc.fluke.COM> joshua@fluke.tc.fluke.com (John) writes:
>
>I have heard of a utility that allows selection of various configurations
>of a system via different AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS. It will select the
>correct files and reboot for you automatically depending on choices.
>Does anyone know of such a creature? Do you know where to get it?

I suppose you could use someone else's executable to do that, but I prefer
to do it myself...

This is a batch file that I use to control my autoexec.bat's and
config.sys's.  It uses bmenu54.zip, available from simtel20 and wuarchive,
but I suppose that you could use anything similar.

I keep all of my autoexec.bat's and config.sys's uniquely named in
c:\dat\cnf\, and just use this program (from anywhere) to swap them.

I suppose you could also use an external utility to reboot the system after
the batch file was finished (but I prefer to do that myself).

@echo off
bmenu 5 5 -7 7 15 "System to install" 4Dos Dos "Waffle local" "Waffle BBS" DESQview "Waffle DESQview"
if errorlevel 6 goto wafdv
if errorlevel 5 goto dv
[etc...etc...]
if errorlevel 1 goto 4dos
goto end
:wafdv
   copy c:\dat\cnf\wafdv.bat c:\autoexec.bat
   copy c:\dat\cnf\wafdv.sys c:\config.sys
   goto end
:dv
   copy c:\dat\cnf\dv.bat c:\autoexec.bat
   copy c:\dat\cnf\dv.sys c:\config.sys
   goto end
[etc...etc...]
:4dos
   copy c:\dat\cnf\4dos.bat c:\autoexec.bat
   copy c:\dat\cnf\4dos.sys c:\config.sys
   goto end
:end
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