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Re:Thirty Years Ago: MS-DOS 6.00 by mike_hock on Friday October 06, 2023 @03:28PM (#37795118)
I thought config.sys ran before autoexec.bat ...
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Re:Thirty Years Ago: MS-DOS 6.00 by jhoechtl on Friday October 06, 2023 @03:59PM (#37795522)
It did for sure
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Re:Thirty Years Ago: MS-DOS 6.00 by netsharc on Friday October 06, 2023 @07:43PM (#37797733)
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.
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Re:Thirty Years Ago: MS-DOS 6.00 by npongratz on Saturday October 07, 2023 @05:01PM (#37805524)
Yes, this is exactly how I did it. That's why I mentioned having to reboot again after choosing a different config.
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