On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 12:21:41 -0500 Roger Turk wrote: > 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. Rob explained it in a later post. Maybe you missed reading it. He said that he likes to use DR-DOS 7.03, but he is forced to use Windows 2000 at school. Several versions of Windows offer the operator the option to restart the computer under a previous version of DOS. When the the operator selects the option to restart the computer under a previous version of DOS, Windows will produce backups for the Windows startup files and copy dconfig.sys and autodos7.bat to config.sys and autoexec.bat respectively. The operator may later start up Windows again under some process whereby the backed up Windows startup files are copied to config.sys and autoexec.bat. Something like that happens. I don't know what happens with the operating system files when these processes are going on and I don't understand how the switchover is accomplished so automagically. I never fully investigated the matter. A Windows expert could of course provide a much more comprehensively detailed technical explanation of exactly what happens and he could very well criticise my overly simplistic understanding and my attempt to explain it. I would certainly not object to becoming enlightened on any points in which I am wrong. Regards, Sam Heywood -- This message sent by BasicLinux
