Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!jarthur!jmerrill From: jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu (Generic User) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: BOOT.SYS by Hans Salvisberg? Message-ID: Date: 28 Jan 91 02:42:36 GMT References: Sender: news@jarthur.Claremont.EDU Distribution: comp Organization: M.Y.T.H. Inc. Lines: 17 In-reply-to: msdos1@nic.funet.fi's message of 27 Jan 91 13:11:31 GMT In article msdos1@nic.funet.fi (Petri Hartoma - Tut) writes: >In article jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu (Generic User) writes: >> Has anyone seen this package floating around? It's a short utility which > >Yes, I guess (because there are lot of utilities like that around) >it's DYNBOOT11.ARC, and can be found from wuarchive.wustl.edu as No, that's not the same. DynaBoot just swaps files around and reboots. BOOT.SYS was written by Hans Salvisberg. I believe the most current version is 1.27 (someone sent it to me a couple of days ago), dated in October of 1990. Where BOOT.SYS differs from other configuration changing programs is that it runs DURING bootup, not before. Is it up anywhere? I can post it to Simtel, if not... -- Jason Merrill jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu