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From: hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Autoexec/Config batch changer (?)
Keywords: help finding
Message-ID: <1991Jan9.130231.15436@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
Date: 9 Jan 91 13:02:31 GMT
References: <1991Jan3.173437.8108@tc.fluke.COM> <1991Jan4.152751.16630@uwasa.fi> <13723@encore.Encore.COM> <19856@yunexus.YorkU.CA>
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rreiner@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Richard Reiner) writes:
>schwalbe@pinocchio.Encore.COM (Jim Schwalbe) writes:
>>>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.

>A compiled program is really overkill for this task.  I have a
>batchfile which does the job quickly and conveniently, with no
>practical limit on the number of different configurations it can
>manage (the real limit is something like 256^3). 

Do you find it very practical to have 256^3 different configuration
files? When I want to switch ram-disk, disk cache, mouse driver,
two different ansi-drivers and some other stuff on and off
independently I need to have 2^8 = 256 different files.
When I want to change a little bit in all of them this takes me 
at least an hour.

My program needs only one CONFIG.SYS and one AUTOEXEC.BAT. It works by
defining switches that can be set on and off in a little menu.
It then writes your CONFIG.SYS that corresponds to your switch
settings and tells them to AUTOEXEC too. If someone is interested
in this program I can mail it as xxencoded zip. I plan to
send it to simtel if there is some interest.

>The only external
>program it uses is a little 100-byte number which reboots the machine.

This can be done with 5 bytes.

>Copies on request.

Copies on request but please note: it's xxencode, not uuencode!
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