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- MODIFYING AUTOEXEC.BAT
-
- One way to speed up your computer is to modify AUTOEXEC.BAT
- This is done by adding FASTOPEN and PATH commands to
- AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
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- (1) Using the PATH command
-
- When you enter a name of a command on the DOS command line,
- DOS looks only in the current directory for that command
- name. If the file is not found, DOS will respond
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- Bad command or file name
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- If you know that your program is in another directory, you
- can change to that directory and run the program. Instead of
- changing directory every time you run a program from a
- different directory, you can add a line that includes the
- PATH command in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
-
- The DOS PATH command allows you to run programs without
- changing the current directory. It can be used as follows
-
- PATH C:\SUB1;C:\SUB2;C:\SUB3
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- Where SUB1, SUB2, SUB3 should be replaced with the names of
- your subdirectories. You can specify as many subdirectories
- as you want as long as the number of characters in the PATH
- line does not exceed 127.
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- When you run a program, DOS searches for the program name in
- the current directory, before executing the PATH command to
- look in the other subdirectories.
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- (2) USING FASTOPEN
-
- FASTOPEN is a DOS command which is available on DOS 3.3 or
- higher. The way it works is when you access a file on a hard
- disk FASTOPEN remembers the location of the file so that DOS
- doesn't have to search the hard disk if the file is used
- again. Without FASTOPEN DOS has to read the file allocation
- table (FAT) on the hard disk to find the location of the file
- before it retrieves it. To start up FASTOPEN for drive C,
- you may enter the command
-
- FASTOPEN C: (Enter)
-
- You can track up to 34 files, including subdirectories using
- the above command. You can increase this number. To track 100
- files, you would type
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- FASTOPEN C:=100 (Enter)
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- For installation of FASTOPEN or PATH on the AUTOEXEC.BAT use
- EDLIN Command, or any wordprocessor to edit AUTOEXEC.BAT
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- If you are not familiar with creating or modifying
- AUTOEXEC.BAT refer to your DOS manual or to a friend who
- knows more about computers.
-
- There are 2 good shareaware programs that will help you
- understand more about batch files. you can download these
- programs from a local BBS or order them through the mail
- from one of the shareware distributors listed in another
- section of this disk.
-
- You can also get registered versions directly from their
- authors:
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- These programs are:
-
- PC-LEARN Registration fee $25.00
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- author: Jim Hood
- P.O. Box 1506
- Merser Island, WA 98040
- (206) 236-0470
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-
- TUTOR.COM Registration fee $10.00
-
- Author:
- Computer Knowledge
- P.O. Box 91176
- Los Angelos, CA 90009
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