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From: nyet@nntp-server.caltech.edu (n liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Need to change name of AUTOEXEC
Message-ID: <1991Mar30.000605.25500@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 30 Mar 91 00:06:05 GMT
References: <9103291744.AA27144@cwns1.INS.CWRU.Edu>
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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aa581@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Sandra Rozhon) writes:


>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.  

Wait, thats not right... Lets try that again:

>>... Simply running a different BAT file from
>>within the AUTOEXEC is not what I want.

What you might want to try is to sector edit your command.com with nu 
(Norton Utils).. Search for autoexec.bat and replace it with whatever you
want.. I'm pretty sure this works (at least it did MANY years ago for
me with dos 2.11). You really want to have both a backup copy of 
the original command.com and a BOOT DISK! If i'm wrong you could be
in for serious problems booting off the drive.
Actually, i'd try it on a floppy first anyways.
No guarantees - maybe you've tried this already and bad things happened..

nye