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From: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Need to change name of AUTOEXEC
Message-ID: <3005@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 3 Apr 91 19:54:58 GMT
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Reply-To: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Organization: University of Iceland (RHI)
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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.

The easiest way is just to patch COMMAND.COM.  Just run NU, search for 
the text "AUTOEXEC", and change it to whatever you want.

-frisk