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re: batch file
Tuesday, December 19, 2006 at 9:31 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by dhm
(966 messages posted)
There are a bunch of products -- such as Win98 -- that require a reboot. To do that
they have to make a backup copy of your AUTOEXEC.BAT and rewrite it. Also some products
want some preparatory program or a SET xxxx = yyyyyyy sort of statement to
be written into the Environment which is a tiny DOS ancestor of the Registry. Some
program will be looking for something in there.
Anyway, all the old backup copies that various installations have made will be there
until you deliberately erase them. You can load them into a text editor and compare
what has changed.
I've never seen any product so arrogant that they would put in a "*** DO NOT EDIT
THIS FILE***" message. That's silly. The AUTOEXEC.BAT is not particularly touchy.
As I said, you can REM out lines to temporarily disable them.
You can also REM out any echo off and @echo off commands. Then the
internal actions of AUTOEXEC.BAT will be revealed.
You can insert lines that say PAUSE before and/or after a line that you suspect
caused the error message. The PAUSE line will stop and ask you to press a key to
continue.
If you make your own backup copy (tip: put it in another folder) then you can always
put things back the way they were.
- Written in response to:
- re: batch file (tony: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 at 7:25 am)
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