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From: campbell@dev8o.mdcbbs.com (Tim Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Need to change name of AUTOEXEC
Message-ID: <1991Apr1.131809.1@dev8o.mdcbbs.com>
Date: 1 Apr 91 13:18:09 GMT
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In article <9103291744.AA27144@cwns1.INS.CWRU.Edu>, 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.  
> 
> 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)
-- 
Sorry I missed the original - I've done this before.  I beleive that if you
take a hex-editor (debug will work - I used PC-tools) and load the invisible
file (IBMDOS.SYS) you'll notice that the name of the file to execute is 
spelled out (located near the end of the file - AUTOEXEC.BAT) - I simply
renamed this to a different file - say, AUTOBOOT.BAT.
I did this because I didn't want people messing with the file, so I created
it and hid it.

	-Tim

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