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Sb: #Comparing AUTOEXECs
    17-Apr-84  22:50:46
Fm: Ward Christensen 76703,302
To: all

Per suggestion from Joel Seiferas, here's my opening "bid" to start a thread on
the subject of autoexec.bat's.
 ---
 1.  pca /d=200 /p=32 /clock /m
 2.  path c:\;d:\bin;d:\bin\ram;d:\
 3.  prompt $e[s$e[H$e[41m $d $e[7m $t $e[0m$e[u$e[44m$p$e[0m$g
 4.  break on
 5.  graf
 6.  type d:\bin\pf.bat
 7.  if exist c:f.com goto nospeed
 8.  jet d:\bin\ram\*.* c:/l
 9.  :nospeed
 10. dosedit
 11. bat *
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 1. STB's Personal Computer Accelerator - 200K electronic disk, 32K print
buffer, set clock from hardware, don't use high memory for printer buffer as I
have extended graphics board there.
 2. Start search path with electronic disk (c:) then hard disk.
 3. Put date/time at top of screen, and path on command line, in colors.
 4. Self explanatory.
 5. Public domain screen print prog, left-shift PrtSc = normal graphics, right
PrtSc = reduced size graphics.
 6.  Type A file to set f6=cls, f7=cd .., f8=dir *.  (list subdirectories),
f9=chkdsk/f, f10=C:f/q/m300 (execute IBM's excellent FileCommand full screen
directory program).
 7. Test if f.com exists on my electronic disk (as it would after a reboot) and
skip the copy of frequently used programs if so.
 8. Copy frequently used progs to electronic disk. JET copies them in 8.3
seconds, COPY in 30!
 9. GOTO label
 10. Invoke DOSEDIT, the 30-command circular buffer for editing previously
entered commands.  The single nicest small program I've seen yet for the PC.
 11.  Bring up Searware extended BATch processor.  In autoexec to get its
signon screen over with (I've paid up, tired of seeing it).

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Sb: #36638-#Comparing AUTOEXECs
    18-Apr-84  01:02:32
Fm: Earle Robinson 70135,141
To: Ward Christensen 76703,302 (X)

Interesting.  A couple of questions.  Why don't you use FP, the nice little
utility from SDA Associates?  The first version is already quite good and the
new version, which I am beta testing, is even better since it allows setting
how deep in sub-directories you can go and allows wild card specs to be used.
This latter makes it like Alias, another program like it, but which is much
more expensive.  What is the Seaware extended bat program?  -er

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Sb: #36656-#Comparing AUTOEXECs
    18-Apr-84  21:14:29
Fm: Ward Christensen 76703,302
To: Earle Robinson 70135,141 (X)


  I guess FP is one of those "if you don't have it you don't know what you're
missing" kind of things.  How does it work?  If you try to open a file, it
tries all files on the path, and if it can't find it THEN it says so?  I guess
that would solve problems like PE not being able to find its whatever file.
  BAT bySEAWARE is certainly in the class of "if you don't have it you don't
know what you're missing" kind of things.
    It provides a significant extension to the IBM Batch capability. It gives
you "better control of messages to the screen; allows accepting input from the
user; create responses to programs (including the kind that are single
keystroke with no CR); string handling operations like substring, length, etc;
comparisons of strings (is operand 1 equal to a whatever); search for files and
tell if they exist;".
  If you just say "BAT" it comes up with a little help:
 bat <command> where <command> is:
 beep   beeps the terminal
 call   [-label] calls subroutine in same BAT file
 cls    clears screen
 begstack       [text...] [\hex] etc (allows colors, i.e. using ansi.sys can
cursor address, etc - makes nice menus!)
 begtype [text] begins typing a block of text (ends with END)
 exit   leaves BAT
 goto   [-lbl] goes to a label in the batch file
 if     token = <> token statement (full if testing)
 inkey  [text] [var] inputs a single key to a variable
 read [prompt] [var] inputs a string to a variable
 readscrn       reads screen lines to check results of previous commands
(Extremely slick - subsequent readscrn's read further and further back up the
screen.  Thus readscrn 3 times then readscrn %x will read the first "token" of
the 4th last line on the screen)
 return from subroutine
 skip [number of lines] used mainly in if statements: if %1 <> yes skip 3
 stateof [filename or var] searches for a file, etc
 trace.on and trace.off for debugging
 type [text or token...] "type %1 is not yes or no"
 assignment (i.e. %1 = foo) (%1 = %1 + 65) etc.

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Sb: #36716-#Comparing AUTOEXECs
    18-Apr-84  23:58:02
Fm: Earle Robinson 70135,141
To: Ward Christensen 76703,302 (X)

Sounds interesting, batware, oops I mean seaware's bat.  Where can one get it?
As for fp, it acts much like the path command under dos, but for reading files.
If the file is not found, then a dos error message will appear.  One refinement
of the new version of fp is that you can use wild cards instead of just the
directory and can limit the search to a certain depth.  You can also suspend it
and turn it back on.  Yes, it would solve the problem of PE not being able to
find a file.  Naturally, you have to explicitly identify where the file is to
be resaved or rewritten.  Alas, the lack of path support under PE will not be
resolved here.  If you don't identify the directory, the file will be written
to the default (sub)directory where you are at the time.  -er

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Sb: #36765-Comparing AUTOEXECs
    19-Apr-84  11:16:53
Fm: Wes Meier (SysOp) 70215,1017
To: Earle Robinson 70135,141 (X)

Earle - The Seaware BAT.COM file is available from my RBBS. Someday, when a
little more free space becomes available here on our XA's, I intend to upload
it to XA4.

                - Wes

PS: Thanks for the kind "comment" you left on the WC-RBBS last night.

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Sb: #36638-#Comparing AUTOEXECs
    18-Apr-84  19:40:11
Fm: Wes Gray 71445,1006
To: Ward Christensen 76703,302 (X)

Ward: Similar structure to my AUTOEXEC with some differences since I am not
using a Hard disk, yet.
1. moreram - allows setting of motherboard switches to 64K to speed up POST
              and set # disks in memory to allow superdrv to work.
2. superdrv - establish RAMdisk as c:
3. superspl - establish spool buffer
4. astclock - set date and time from AST board
5. prompt   - to display time and path in DOS prompt
6. copy command.com c:
7. rmpc   - replace Parity check handler to allow attempt to save work if
               parity check occurs
8. copy various utilities to RAMdisk
9. comspec2 - make c: the default drive for DOS to find COMMAND.COM
10. path c:\;a:\;b:\ - tell DOS to search all drives for .COM, etc
11. speedkey - to increase cursor movement speed
12. scrn     - to blank screen after x minutes of no screen io
13. scrlock  - to make ScrollLock key work
14. pkload   - install ProKey 3.0 and load Function keys
15. fp c:\;a:\;b:\  - make data files accessible like .COM, etc from #10
16. dosedit  - activate circular buffer for DOS commands
17. bat      - install Extended Batch Language
                                                      Wes

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Sb: #36692-#Comparing AUTOEXECs
    18-Apr-84  21:25:21
Fm: Ward Christensen 76703,302
To: Wes Gray 71445,1006 (X)


  Interesting.  I thought by starting this thread I'd find something
interesting.  I think RMPC is nice, and comspec2.  I currently have a hard
disk, yet copy COMMAND.COM to C:, my electronic disk.  Would COMSPEC2 make that
work that way?  I suppose leaving say an editor and returning to DOS would then
be faster.

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Sb: #36718-Comparing AUTOEXECs
    19-Apr-84  19:34:02
Fm: Wes Gray 71445,1006
To: Ward Christensen 76703,302 (X)

Ward: COMSPEC2 does make it work that way and should make exiting from programs
and returning to DOS faster. What the program does is compensate for a bug in
DOS 2.0. It searches for the string A:COMMAND.COM in memory and replaces it
with any string you code. In my case it is c:command.com, the program is then
followed with the equivalent SET command to tell DOS we want to change the path
to COMMAND.COM. The actual lines in my AUTOEXEC are as follows:
   comspec2
   if errorlevel 0 goto csgood
   echo comspec error
   goto csbad
   :csgood
   set comspec=c:\command.com
   :csbad
The program can be found in either XA4 as COMSPE.ASM. I got it from Gene Plantz
BBS. If you ould like RMPC let me know and i can upload. My previous message
got garbled and made the name rmpc. I found RMPC either on Gene's BBS or Bob
Mahoney's in Milwaukee.
                                               Wes



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Sb: #36638-Comparing AUTOEXECs
    18-Apr-84  22:30:28
Fm: Joel Seiferas   70516,1704
To: Ward Christensen 76703,302 (X)


    Below is my current autoexec.bat file.  I have added a few extra
comments, in parentheses, and two longer comments at the end.

:To save precious environment space, use
:   a for clockset,
:   b for spoolsize,
:   c for spoolpriority (9 is highest, 1 is lowest),
:   d for pseudosize, (size of main RAM drive)
:   e for comsize. (size of RAM drive used only for COMMAND.COM)
set a=pca/clock (On my Quadboard system, I use a=pwrupclk.)
set b=64
set c=5
set d=310
set e=21
set pseudo=C:
set comdisk=D:
if exist signal.1 goto first
if exist signal.2 goto second
goto quick

:quick (To run in small memory,
              or to boot more quickly, I have only to erase signal.*.)
path a:\;a:\toboot
FP A:\DATA
pca/print=0
type keys.set
verify on
break on
%a%
goto out

:first (first time through, with floppy COMSPEC)
path a:\;a:\toboot
FP A:\DATA
pca/print=%b%/disk=%d%/disk=%e% (STB software)
pcu p=%c% (STB software)
ren signal.1 *.2
type keys.set (set function keys via ANSI.SYS)
graphics
hebrew (load a graphics half font)
pkload (load ProKey)
prokey pc-dos.pk/r
dosedit
verify on
%a%
label %pseudo% pseudodisk
label %comdisk% comdisk
mkdir %pseudo%\booted
mkdir %pseudo%\DATA
path %pseudo%\booted;%pseudo%\;a:\;a:\toboot;b:\
FP %pseudo%\DATA;%pseudo%\
copy command.com %comdisk% >nul:
chmod -ra %comdisk%command.com
set comspec=%comdisk%command.com
copy \toboot\*.* %pseudo%\booted >nul:
copy \DATA\*.* %pseudo%\DATA >nul:
set reserve=012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
                   (futile attempt to save lots of environment space)
command/p
:second (with RAM-drive COMSPEC this time through)
ren signal.2 *.1
set reserve=
%pseudo%chkdsk *.*
echobyts 7 7 7 (3 beeps to wake me up)
:out
exit

More notes:
    1.  I don't actually use the Hebrew font much.  I have a
right-to-left console driver (derived from ANSI.SYS), but I have found
no reasonable screen editor able to work in graphics modes.  (The
PC-DOS line editor EDLIN does work in these modes, however.)
    2.  Reserving environment space is a problem.  The autoexec.bat
file itself boxes the area in, even before it loads all the resident
(continued)

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Sb: #36638-Comparing AUTOEXECs
    18-Apr-84  22:33:49
Fm: Joel Seiferas   70516,1704
To: Ward Christensen 76703,302 (X)


(continued)
programs.  Does anyone out there have an automatic way to reserve more
space?  (Ideally, there should be a config.sys option for this.)

                                  Joel Seiferas

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Sb: #36638-#Comparing AUTOEXECs
    19-Apr-84  01:23:32
Fm: Jim Rosenberg 71515,124
To: Ward Christensen 76703,302 (X)

Dosedit sounds pretty good.  Where does one get it?  -Thanks, Jim

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Sb: #36778-Comparing AUTOEXECs
    19-Apr-84  11:18:45
Fm: Wes Meier (SysOp) 70215,1017
To: Jim Rosenberg 71515,124 (X)

Jim DOS-ED.HEX is available on our XA6 database.    - Wes

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Sb: #36638-#Comparing AUTOEXECs
    19-Apr-84  09:22:48
Fm: dave rothman 70240,372
To: Ward Christensen 76703,302 (X)

ward, here's my autoexec.bat.  ive notice that many of the replies have people
going thru all sorts of incantations to do all sorts of weird things for really
very little rational justification. its sorta like the old story about the guy
who said he drove from NY to london.  i dont know how he did it, but i know he
went through connecticut!

anyway, mine is relatively strightforward....the first line is program for my
security board...if it is not the first line of the autoexec, the machine hangs
(plus you cannot ^c out of the thing or the board pops in anyway and hangs the
machine).

since i dont want to see all the crap spew forth on my screen, i redirect
everything away to nul ( i think thats near podunk, but im not sure).  i
recently installed the set stuff for edix,but it really is redundant for fp
does it already...

my fp list is fairly short for i have found that if it is long, it takes a year
for it to search all the dirs for a prog.

dcport10 directs port10 to my printer so that i may later download the APL char
set to it.

and finally i print out the ver cause i changed command.com to print out a
self-serving msg that says that this is my computer

here it is: loading ctty nul PATH C:\;C:\SYS;C:\SYS2;C:\EDIT;C:\nort;C:\123 FP
C:\EDIT;C:\;C:\123 PROMPT $T$H$H$H $n$G mode com1:12 superspl lpt1:/m=64
superdrv b:/m=96 set config.edx=\edit\config.edx set help.edx \edit\help.edx
speedk scrlock scrnsav dcPort10 dosedit astclock echo off ctty con ver

                      ....dave

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Sb: #36791-#Comparing AUTOEXECs
    19-Apr-84  20:09:09
Fm: Earle Robinson 70135,141
To: dave rothman 70240,372 (X)

After seeing that autoexec file from one guy which seemed about 3 pages long, I
can understand and concur with your opinion.  Don't you have problems with that
speedkey routine?  It is incompatible with some programs as you probably know.
-er

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Sb: #36838-Comparing AUTOEXECs
    20-Apr-84  10:30:26
Fm: dave rothman 70240,372
To: Earle Robinson 70135,141 (X)

earle, re speedkey...

1. its incompatibility w/other progs largely is a function of where it is run
in conjunction with the other progs...ie if u have 4 progs and they play with
bios or some other pc specific thing, then u have 4 factorial (24) different
ordering schemes to try in your autoexec....this particular order (the one in
my auto) works for everything i run except for a small inconsequential problem
in smartcom.  that prob is when i hit an arrow key or bs, it wont
auto-repeat...i have to keep hit it n times for it to move n spaces

2. the only other sacrifice w/speedkey, is i can use buf128...

not sure about things like prokey...i find that if i have an intelligent editor
and use programmer friendly environments like apl, i really dont need it...dave



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Sb: #36736-Comparing AUTOEXECs
    20-Apr-84  22:15:35
Fm: Ward Christensen 76703,302
To: Joel Seiferas   70516,1704


  Thanks for your AUTOEXEC.  I didn't know about the %xxxx% being usable to
substitute environment data into a batch file.  Pretty neat! (I don't find it
in the DOS manual under ENVIRONMENT or BATCH or SET).
  I also had missed the point that PCU can change the spooler priority! I have
often had to wait for printing to complete before doing some communications
package for (proven) fear that I would lose data.
  Enjoyed your "signal" idea - as a flag to select alternate autoexec's.
  One thing I didn't understand at all:  what is "label"?
  Also why are you creating subdirectories on your RAM disk?
  And (getting to sound like broken record) What is "CHMOD"?  In general, I
didn't understand COMSPEC.  Correct me if I'm wrong: after copying COMMAND.COM
to an electronic disk, you can direct it to find COMMAND.COM there by SET
COMSPEC=C:COMMAND.COM - right?  What happens if I accendentally erase the
electronic disk?  I presume it will say "can't find command.com".
  I appreciate your SET RESERVED=xxxx idea, then shortening it by deleting it.
Pretty clever!

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Sb: #36765-Comparing AUTOEXECs
    20-Apr-84  22:20:46
Fm: Ward Christensen 76703,302
To: Earle Robinson 70135,141


  Before you spend many $ on the phone long distance, may I suggest you send
$30 direct to the author, and get (1) the latest version; (2) a nice manual;
and (3) the satisfaction of supporting one of the nicest "user support
software" packages around.
  They are at: Seaware Corp, P.O. Box 1656, Delray Beach, FL 33444.


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Sb: #37027-Comparing AUTOEXECs
    21-Apr-84  23:05:12
Fm: Earle Robinson 70135,141
To: Ward Christensen 76703,302

thank you.  good idea.  -er

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Sb: #37026-Comparing AUTOEXECs
    22-Apr-84  01:28:50
Fm: Joel Seiferas   70516,1704
To: Ward Christensen 76703,302


Ward,

    There are several programs around equivalent to LABEL and CHMOD,
which you inquired about.  The former sets the volume label on a
diskette (or even on a RAM disk).  The latter sets a file's "mode"; I
was just using it to protect COMMAND.COM from accidental erasure.  (You
are right about the consequences of such erasure:  DOS will tell you to
insert a system disk into your RAM drive or your fixed drive!)

    My main rationale for using subdirectories on my RAM disk C: is to
keep the root directory clear for temporary work, which I can always
mass erase with "ERASE *.*".

    At some point, I think I heard or came to the conclusion that
setting COMSPEC did not have the desired effect until the next
subsidiary invocation of the command processor.  That's why I go around
the second time.  I know there are patches (such as COMSPEC2?) to avoid
this, but I prefer to stay as close to standard PC-DOS as I can.

   By the way, I believe you are part of the recent BROWSE bandwagon.
I have not tried the program, but I have a question:  Why bother with
an additional utility, when your standard text editor should already
have all its features?  If I want to browse through FILE, I just type
"VEDIT FILE NUL".  (CompuView's VEDIT is only 16.6 kilobytes, and it is
among the select set of utilities that I keep resident on my RAM disk.
(This, incidentally, suggests yet another topic for your series of
survey threads:  What do people keep resident or on their boot disks?))

                                  Joel


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Sb: #37200-#Comparing AUTOEXECs
    22-Apr-84  09:59:08
Fm: Ward Christensen 76703,302
To: Joel Seiferas   70516,1704 (X)


  Thanks for the COMMAND.COM, RAM DRIVE Subdirectories, etc info.  Very
helpful.  Interesting that comspec maybe doesn't work.  Do you mean doing
"anything" i.e. an edit or whatever, then when you come back, it will finally
look for Command.com where comspec says?  I found an interesting thing when
working with it - namely that I put the path in lower case, and a program I
used that had a SHELL type escape, couldn't find it, although DOS could.
Changing the entry back to upper case caused this other program to find it OK.
  As to using a standard text editor for browse, that's not all that bad an
idea.  I guess I always thought that editors were by definition much slower
paging thru memory, etc. Does VEDIT use all of memory?  For example, if I have
a 120K DOC file, can I quickly go from top to bottom?  With PMATE, it is
obliged to page it thru a 40K memory buffer, thus such an act is slow.  Also a
BIG reason for a browse program in this case, is that the OUTPUT file will be
created on the logged in drive, and if I'm browsing someones full A:, I don't
want the unpleasantness of "disk full" errors.  I think even if I said "pm foo
d:nul" the unwanted OUTPUT file would be on D:, but the "reverse scroll" file
would be on A:.
  Hm, now that I have KEDIT, which edits in memory, perhaps I should think of
IT as my browse program.  Its the editor that is patterned after the XEDIT on
the IBM Mainframe VM/CMS system (Virtual Machine/Conversational Monitor
System).

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Sb: #37214-#Comparing AUTOEXECs
    22-Apr-84  15:54:19
Fm: Joel Seiferas   70516,1704
To: Ward Christensen 76703,302 (X)


Ward,

    I think COMMAND.COM takes note of the COMSPEC environment entry
only when first invoked.  So the setting that matters is the one in
effect at that time.  To take advantage of a new setting, therefore,
you should invoke and stay within a nested instance of COMMAND.COM.
That is why I invoke COMMAND.COM with the /P switch (see DOS 2.0 manual
page 10-9).  (You can do it without the /P switch, but then you should
take care not to use any extra EXIT commands.  If you do go without the
/P switch, by the way, then AUTOEXEC.BAT is not invoked by the nested
COMMAND.COM call, for some reason.)

    The environment does indeed store values without case conversion.
The phenomenon you described might be explainable if your "SHELL
escape" (the half-baked BASIC one?) does not perform case conversion as
DOS does.

    No, VEDIT does not yet use all of memory, but that has been on
CompuView's list of "coming attractions" for some time.  Paging is
quite fast within the currently buffered portion of a file, but
reloading the buffer is indeed slow.  Since full memory support is
"coming soon", I put up with this, and I customize not even to have a
"reverse scroll" file and the resulting full-disk worries.  I'll be
interested in your impressions of KEDIT as they develop; but as long as
CompuView continues to make SOME slow progress toward their promises, I
will probably stick with their quite nice product.

                                  Joel

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Sb: #37278-Comparing AUTOEXECs
    22-Apr-84  21:12:31
Fm: Ward Christensen 76703,302
To: Joel Seiferas   70516,1704 (X)


  I don't think of KEDIT as my "main editor", but since it does support using
all memory, and split screen (up to 3 files), I like it.  Also, and VERY
important, it is patterned after the host XEDIT that I use quite frequently at
work, so there is little learning curve, compared to what there would be if I
were to say switch to VEDIT.  As it is now, I am amazed I can keep track of,
lets see, the 7 editors I currently use between my CP/M and PC systems.  (I
have, but gave up on, Personal Editor).

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Sb: #37200-#Comparing AUTOEXECs
    22-Apr-84  13:13:22
Fm: Wes Meier (SysOp) 70215,1017
To: Joel Seiferas   70516,1704 (X)

Joel - Aha! Another VEDIT fan. The reason I prefer BROWSE or LIST3 over VEDIT
when viewing files, is that VEDIT's scrolling is a bit too slow for my taste.
BROWSE and LIST3 do direct screen I/O and scroll "a page at a time"
instantaneously.

                        - Wes

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Sb: #37243-#Comparing AUTOEXECs
    22-Apr-84  17:00:30
Fm: Earle Robinson 70135,141
To: Wes Meier (SysOp) 70215,1017 (X)

Do you prefer list3 over browse?  If so, why?  Further, I though that list was
a print utility, not a screen one.  Or, is list different from list3?  -er

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Sb: #37286-#Comparing AUTOEXECs
    22-Apr-84  18:54:24
Fm: Wes Meier (SysOp) 70215,1017
To: Earle Robinson 70135,141 (X)

Hmmm. Hard to say since BROWSE is so new (to me at least). My first impression
is BROWSE is better...if for no other reason than it supports and actually USES
color.

There are probably 3-5 different programs running around with the NAME of LIST
and all, no doubt, do different things. The LIST and LIST3 pgms to which I
refer are "type|more" utilities and were both written by Vern Buerg. LIST3 is
version 3 of LIST. Maybe someday I'll zap LIST and REN LIST3.

                        - Wes

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Sb: #37306-#Comparing AUTOEXECs
    22-Apr-84  22:59:10
Fm: Jeff Garbers 73105,330
To: Wes Meier (SysOp) 70215,1017 (X)

Where *is* this browse thing, anyway? /// JPG

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Sb: #37360-Comparing AUTOEXECs
    23-Apr-84  20:28:31
Fm: Pete Nielsen 70416,1026
To: Jeff Garbers 73105,330 (X)

Sorry for returning to the orriginal subject but: at work we use an autoexec
which uses a combination of File-Command and the Extended Batch Language to: On
power on(or use of the "Menu" PFK: display a list of all and only the
subdirectories in the \ (root) dirrectory. Possitioning the cursor on one of
these subdirectories and hitting the "Use" PFK causes the system to change
dirrectories into that subdirrectory, and execute the autoexec.bat found there.
The "main" subdirrestories have names like LOTUS, WP, C, etc. Very convienient,
and it works like a charm. ... Pete