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From: s907396@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Miramar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Need to change name of AUTOEXEC
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.163548.29870@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 29 Mar 91 16:35:48 GMT
References: <1991Mar28.190057.3441@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia.
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chrisb@hubcap.clemson.edu (Chris Behrens) writes:

>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.

You can do that by altering COMMAND.COM itself using a binary editor. I 
used Norton Utilities' NU.EXE to do it. Edit COMMAND.COM and search for the
string 'AUTOEXEC.BAT' and change it to whatever you want. I try to use names
of the same length as 'AUTOEXEC.BAT' so as not to complicate things. Dunno
about placing it in a sub-directo though. This method isn't very dangerous
if you know what you're doing but there's a always the risk of accidentally 
changing a byte somewhere in COMMAND.COM and there might be problems with
programs which looks for AUTOEXEC.BAT.

Eugene...
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