Now *I'm* confused! I am using DR-DOS 7 on my laptop and it *does* have and use AutoExec.Bat. Nowhere on the computer is the file, autodos7.bat. (I just did a "whereis auto*.* c k" search that searched all of my drives.) I also use Config.Sys, not dconfig.sys.
Roger Turk Tucson, Arizona USA Rob wrote: . > On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 15:04:23 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . > > Rob wrote: . > >> I formatted my floppies with DR-DOS 7.03, it seems this won't work. . > >> I formatted them with a m$dos 6.22 bootdisk, now they work! . > > Doesn't DrDOS use an autoexec.bat? Now I'm confused. . > > I haven't a clue about DrDOS. I assumed it was compatible . > > with the real DOS. Now I don't know. . > > Cheers, . > > Steven . > Hey, Steven; . > DrDos uses dconfig.sys and autodos7.bat instead. By the way it is a . > real dos, much better than the m$dos6.22 that I started on. In fact the . > DR stands for Digital Research, the company founded by Gary Kildall,'I . > hope I have spelled his name right' who came up with CP\M and the . > original Disk Operating System and who got ripped off by Tom Patterson, . > and then ultimately bigtime by bill gates. It's a tragic story of . > brilliant innovator and inventor crushed by a thief and conman disguised . > as shrewd businessman. But thanks for your help, my disks work now, and . > that's basically all I really needed, if I need to replace them I'll boot . > from a m$dos floppy. . > Thanx Again, Rob:
