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                          Boot Camp
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Use the left and right arrow keys to move from window to
window. The up and down arrow keys can be used to scroll the
text in each window. You can also use the PgUp, PgDn, Home, and
End keys within each window. To reboot with different
AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files, select the appropriate file
name in the 'FILE' window and press <ENTER>.  Make certain the
'FILE' window is the active window.  You can also use your
mouse to left-click twice on the file name.  You can edit the
indicated file by selecting its window and pressing 'E', or
using your mouse to left-click on [FILE], [*.BAT], or [*.SYS].
NOTE: Press <ESC> at any time to exit from BOOT CAMP and return
to DOS.
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        CAUTION!  MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BOOT DISK HANDY!
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You should *ALWAYS* have a boot disk handy prior to rebooting
your computer with a new configuration.  You can make a boot
disk from the DOS prompt by placing an unformatted disk in drive
A: and typing 'FORMAT A: \S'.  If you run into any problems when
you reboot from your hard drive, use your floppy boot disk to
gain access to your system, then edit your hard drive
AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files as necessary to correct the
problem.  When you reboot with a new configuration, backup copies
are always made of the existing AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files
(they are copied to the root directory as AUTOEXEC.BAC and
CONFIG.BAC, respectively).
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                   HOW DOES BOOT CAMP WORK?
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BOOT CAMP provides you with a dynamic method for choosing,
editing, and rebooting from a variety of AUTOEXEC.BAT and
CONFIG.SYS file combinations.  You must first create a text file
called BOOTCAMP.CFG.  This can be done with any standard text
editor.  If you use your word processor, make sure you save the
file as an ASCII file.  The contents of BOOTCAMP.CFG must follow
a certain format for the program to work correctly.  The first
time you run BOOT.EXE it will attempt to create BOOTCAMP.CFG for
you by copying your existing AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files
as ORIGINAL.BAT and ORIGINAL.SYS, respectively.

Here is the format for each entry in the BOOTCAMP.CFG file:

[NAME]
Description

[NAME] -- The root filename of the AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS
files, stored as [NAME].BAT and [NAME].SYS.  [NAME] can be
anything meaningful, like NORMAL.BAT and NORMAL.SYS, or
RAMDISK.BAT and RAMDISK.SYS.  [NAME] must contain only valid
DOS filename characters. You can have as many as 100 separate
NAMES in BOOTCAMP.CFG

Description -- up to 76 characters which describe the contents of
a particular set of boot files, e.g., Falcon 3.0 - 622K RAM,
256K Cache, 2+ Megs EMS.

Each of these components must appear on a separate line. Here's a
sample of a typical BOOTCAMP.CFG file:

NORMAL
622K RAM,SmartDrive,Mouse,2 Megs EMS
VANILLA
No TSRs or Drivers of Any Kind
RAMDISK
610K RAM,256K Cache,2+ Meg RAMDISK

It's a good idea to use upper-case letters for the [NAME] lines
so that they can be more easily distinguished.

Next, you need to create separate [NAME].BAT and [NAME].SYS files
for each menu entry using a standard text file editor (try DOS'
EDIT.COM).  [NAME].BAT should contain all the commands you
would use in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file for that application, while
[NAME].SYS should contain the CONFIG.SYS file options.  [NAME]
must match the root filename used in your BOOTCAMP.CFG file.

All of the [NAME].BAT and [NAME].SYS files, and BOOTCAMP.CFG,
must be in the root directory of the drive you boot from, which
is normally drive C.

You can add an optional line to your BOOTCAMP.CFG file which
Boot Camp uses to determine what text editor to run when you
edit a Boot Camp file.  Just add a line to BOOTCAMP.CFG like
this:            'EDITOR=FILENAME.EXT'
If you use the 'EDITOR=' parameter in your BOOTCAMP.CFG file,
make sure your path statement includes the directory which
contains FILENAME.EXT.  If you omit the 'EDITOR=' setting
from your BOOTCAMP.CFG file, Boot Camp will attempt to use
DOS' EDIT.COM program.

You can also add optional parameters to your BOOTCAMP.CFG file
to control the color scheme.  The following is a list of the
available color options:

BackDropFG=       'Controls the foreground color for the panel
                  'beneath the screen.
BackDropBG=       'Panel background color.
WindowFG=         'Foreground color for windows 2,3, and 4.
WindowBG=         'Background color for windows 2,3, and 4.
CursorFG=         'Foreground color, cursor line.
CursorBG=         'Background color, cursor line.
FileFG=           'Foreground color, boot file choice and
                  'desription box.
FileBG=           'Background color, boot file choice.

Acceptable foreground color choices are:

0=Black  1=Blue  2=Green  3=Cyan  4=Red  5=Violet  6=Brown
7=White  8=Grey  9=BrightBlue    10=BrightGreen
11=BrightCyan   12=BrightRed     13=BrightPurple  14=Yellow
15=BrightWhite

The background colors must be chosen from foreground colors
0-7.  As an example, the following color settings would make
the window foregound color Black and the background color Cyan:

                      WindowFG=0
                      WindowBG=3

When you select a file from the top-left window, the [NAME].BAT
file is copied as AUTOEXEC.BAT and the [NAME].SYS is copied as
CONFIG.SYS.  The program gives you the option of performing
either a warm or cold boot. The computer then restarts with the
new files and automatically installs your new configuration.  You
can reboot directly from the DOS prompt by typing in 'BOOT NAME'
and pressing <Enter>, where NAME is the root filename used for
your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files, stored as [NAME].BAT and
[NAME].SYS.