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From: schwalbe@pinocchio.Encore.COM (Jim Schwalbe)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Autoexec/Config batch changer (?)
Keywords: help finding
Message-ID: <13723@encore.Encore.COM>
Date: 4 Jan 91 17:20:13 GMT
References: <1991Jan3.173437.8108@tc.fluke.COM> <1991Jan4.152751.16630@uwasa.fi>
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>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.
>

In article <1991Jan4.152751.16630@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) replies:
>... You can direct your choices in the autoexec.bat by
>using a batch enhancer which allows branching.  It is most often
>called ASK, and there are practically a countless number of them
>...
>Note, however, that the config.sys configuration is the more
>relevant in this question, and the information I put forward here is
>only marginal. 
>

There is a utility which was published in the November ??, 1989 issue of PC
Magazine about a utility called CONFIG.CTL which gives you control over what
gets loaded at boot time in config.sys.  I pulled it off the PC MagNet the
other day and I like it.  You may be able to find it on Simtel 20.

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