Re:Thirty Years Ago: MS-DOS 6.00
by npongratz on Friday October 06, 2023 @09:49AM
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I was stuck with MS-DOS 5.0 as a child, and was mildly envious of 6.x's MultiConfig that I read about in magazines; it seemed so much better than using boot floppies for nonstandard configurations. So I rigged autoexec.bat to present a menu of various configs and rename the related config.sys files so that the one I chose was used after autoexec.bat ran. Worked quite well; the only minor downside I encountered was having to reboot again when choosing a different config than the one config.sys currently held.
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I thought config.sys ran before autoexec.bat ...
It did for sure
It seems his/her hack was to select a particular configuration, get autoexec.bat to copy the file with that configuration as the new config.sys, and then reboot the PC so that config.sys would get read at next boot.