Time: Wed Aug 27 16:38:00 1997 by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA23135; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 12:29:53 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 12:28:18 -0700 To: Eudora for Windows <eudora-win@wso.williams.edu> From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: AUTOEXEC.BAT & CONFIG.SYS If you have a working version of CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT, you can't get into too much trouble if you allow MEMMAKER to optimize your system for you. It saves the previous versions in: C:\DOS\CONFIG.UMB C:\DOS\AUTOEXEC.UMB where "UMB" stands for Upper Memory Block (a memory region which MEMMAKER tries to use). If MEMMAKER trashes your system, just revert back to these start-up files. I am speaking here of pre-Win95 systems only, however. If you are new to these files, try to get familiar with them by executing TYPE, or MORE, or PRINT, at the command line, for example: C:\MYDIR> cd .. C:\> more <config.sys C:\> more <autoexec.bat I archive old versions of these files, by creating the directory CONFIG.DIR, and then copying the latest versions of these files into that directory, after renaming the suffix to a 3-digit integer. For example: C:\> mkdir config.dir C:\> cd config.dir C:\CONFIG.DIR> copy c:\config.sys /v C:\CONFIG.DIR> copy c:\autoexec.bat /v Then, upon making any changes to either of these two files, I archive the current copies, as follows: C:\> cd config.dir C:\CONFIG.DIR> rename config.sys config.001 C:\CONFIG.DIR> rename autoexec.bat autoexec.001 C:\CONFIG.DIR> copy c:\config.sys /v C:\CONFIG.DIR> copy c:\autoexec.bat /v Then, on the next iteration, "001" would become "002" and so on. To protect yourself against memory loss (your own!), you might also want to write-protect the archived versions, as follows: C:\CONFIG.DIR> attrib *.* +r This command makes all files "read-only" (i.e. "turn on" Read-only.). You can get help with the ATTRIB command as follows: C:\CONFIG.DIR> help attrib The ATTRIB command without arguments, will give you a list of attributes for all files in the current directory. ATTRIB /s will do the same, but for all files in all sub-directories, as well. Thus, a neat way to catalog your directory contents is as follows: C:\MYDIR> attrib /s >catalog This will write all pathnames into the file CATALOG, with their attributes showing in the left margin of the CATALOG file. This technique of routing program output to a file is called "redirection". You might try it with a number of different commands, like DIR and DIR /s (do sub-directories too). I hope this helps. /s/ Paul Mitchell http://www.supremelaw.com copy: Supreme Law School At 08:57 AM 8/27/97 -0400, you wrote: >I couldn't agree more! I thought it but you said it. You can also send >those voice mail support lines experts, who expect you to understand all >the tech jargon, that if you did you wouldn't be making the call in the >first place together in the same canoe on a fast current on the Niagara >river towards the Falls, on the way to this special hell. > >Files in hidden conflict on establishing new apps and trying to keep the >hard drive relatively clean is a big "bug" and a pain in the butt for me. > >>>>>>>Start of Quoted Message >However I think that there should be a special hell for those who put >things on drive C, alter AUTOEXEC.BAT without asking, or fail to provide an >uninstaller that uninstalls everything it should install and nothing it >should not install.* >---------------------------------- >* A special division of that special hell for those who provide >installation instructions so hidden that you can't access them until AFTER >you've installed the beast. > >David the ibid > >David Ibbetson ibbetson@idirect.com >133 Wilton Street #506 Phone (416) 363-6692 >Toronto, M5A 4A4 Fax (416) 363-4987 > ><<<<<<End Of Quoted Message > > >Cyril W. 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