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re: batch file
Tuesday, December 19, 2006 at 12:19 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by tony
(80 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(**Are those the ones that are the .001,.002,.003,.dos,.nu3,
and tsh??**) that various installations have made will be there
>until you deliberately erase them. You can load them into a text editor(**How do
I load 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. (**Do I put a period
before the REM? For instance, where it says Autoexec.001, do I make it Autoexec.001REM?**)
>
>You can also REM out any echo off and @echo off commands.(**When I
rt. click the Autoexec.bat and click "edit", it says echo OFF. Do I put a period
after the OFF and then type REM??**) 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.
>
On Tuesday, December 19, 2006 at 9:31 am, dhm wrote:
>
>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(**Are those the ones that are the .001,.002,.003,.dos,.nu3,
and tsh??**) that various installations have made will be there
>until you deliberately erase them. You can load them into a text editor(**How do
I load 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. (**Do I put a period
before the REM? For instance, where it says Autoexec.001, do I make it Autoexec.001REM?**)
>
>You can also REM out any echo off and @echo off commands.(**When I
rt. click the Autoexec.bat and click "edit", it says echo OFF. Do I put a period
after the OFF and then type REM??**) 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.
>
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- re: batch file (dhm: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 at 9:31 am)
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