Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!umriscc!mcs213e.cs.umr.edu!mcastle From: mcastle@mcs213e.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle {Nexus}) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps Subject: Re: automatic boot pc from batch file Message-ID: <2416@umriscc.isc.umr.edu> Date: 16 Mar 91 20:52:36 GMT References: <4725@gumby.Altos.COM> <19707@brahms.udel.edu> Sender: news@umriscc.isc.umr.edu Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla Lines: 18 In article <19707@brahms.udel.edu> sguerke@brahms.udel.edu (Stephen Guerke) writes: > >REM REBOOTS TO DOS ENVIRONMENT >COPY C:\SYSTEM\CONFIG.DOS C:\CONFIG.SYS >COPY C:\SYSTEM\AUTOEXEC.DOS C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT >COPY (OTHER FILES THAT NEED TO BE CHANGED IF ANY) >RESET Word of warning: If you use a caching disk-writes as well as disk reads, be sure you include a line to flush the cache to disk before the RESET. Don't know how long it took me to figure that one out. Also played havoc with running OPTIMIZE with QEMM too.... :- -- Mike Castle (Nexus) S087891@UMRVMA.UMR.EDU (preferred) | XEDIT: Emacs mcastle@mcs213k.cs.umr.edu (unix mail-YEACH!)| on a REAL Life is like a clock: You can work constantly, and be right | operating all the time, or not work at all, and be right twice a day. | system. :->