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From: aa581@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Sandra Rozhon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Need to change name of AUTOEXEC
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Date: 29 Mar 91 17:44:29 GMT
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In a message from (chrisb@hubcap.clemson.edu (Chris Behrens))
 
>Is there a program that will allow me to change the name of the file
>that COMMAND.COM looks for when booting ??  By default, it looks for and
>executes AUTOEXEC, i want to name it something else, maybe place it in a
>subdirectory or something. Simply running a different BAT file from
>within the AUTOEXEC is not what I want.
 

Go ahead and create the .BAT file you want to use in whatever 
subdirectory you wish, then in your AUTOEXEC.BAT have only one line that
refers to that batch file.  

Example:

(contents of your AUTOEXEC.BAT will look like this)
c:\batchfiles\newauto


In \batchfiles you would have your NEWAUTO.BAT that contains all the
things your old AUTOEXEC.BAT had.



Sandra Rozhon (aa581@cleveland.freenet.edu)