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From: [e-mail] (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: FAQ question candidate: HP95LX boot to dos?
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Date: 7 Jan 1993 13:06:27 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Charles Howes) writes:
>I (think I) scoured the eddie.mit.edu site for information on how to set
>the HP to run CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT on start-up, but I'm obviously
>missing something.  (It's 2am.  I'm missing sleep.)

You don't have to do anything special to get the machine to run them; if they
exist, they will be run - at Ctl-Alt-Del boot time. (Remember, the machine
doesn't boot simply by being turned on.) The machine looks for the files on A:
first, then on C:. If you just want to load some TSRs, such as the IRPRTSC
infrared printer driver, you can do that by doing what you want in
AUTOEXEC.BAT, and then using $SYSMGR as the last line - this will start the
built-in apps. I stuck in a PAUSE right before that to give me the option to
hit ^C and get a plain, unadorned DOS, for those times when I want all 640K of
system memory. (Well, 626K.)
--
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
[e-mail]      | adequately be explained by stupidity.
      "Science is all in the public domain, and allows few secrets."
              -- Tom Clancy, _The Sum of All Fears_