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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!utrcu1!infnews!ahoekstr
- From: ahoekstr@cs.utwente.nl (Andre Hoekstra)
- Subject: Re: CONFIG.SYS tactics
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.125748.18239@cs.utwente.nl>
- Sender: ahoekstr@cs.utwente.nl
- Nntp-Posting-Host: waal
- Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 12:57:48 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- In article <1992Aug29.223803.24744@news.nd.edu> rwilliam@bach.helios.nd.edu (richard williams) writes:
- >In article <fzfbe-bz@clmqt.marquette.MI.US> traal@clmqt.marquette.MI.US (Brian Phillips) writes:
- >>In <hurd.714863125@sfu.ca> hurd@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter L. Hurd) writes:
- >>
- >>
- >>>>> - (i.e. Can I redirect CONFIG.SYS output to a file?)
-
- NO YOU CAN NOT!!
- Before you post a possible solution to a simple question as this:
- TRY THE DAMN SOLUTION (TTDS)!!
-
- >>
- >>>As a DOS moron, let me suggest a pause statement very early on in your
- >>>Autoexec.bat. Time waster when booting you say, less time wasting that
- >>>fiddling around with reading a piped output I say.
- >>
- >>Of course, the question was how to direct CONFIG.SYS to a file, not pause
- >>the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. RTFM, or in this case, RTFQ.
- >>
- >> --Traal the BRAVE
- >>--
- >Try the suggestion out before you criticize it. By putting a pause in
- >autoexec.bat, you will most likely be able to see whatever it was that was
- >output by config.sys. (Unless there was more than one screenful of output).
- >This same tip appears in PC Mag this month (or maybe PC computing).
- >Sending it to a file isn't necessary if all you want to do is see what the
-
- AND WILL NOT WORK EITHER
-
- >messages said, sending it to a file is just another way of meeting the
- >original poster's goal but the pause tip will probably work as well.
-
- THE ONLY USEFUL ANSWER TO THE QUESTION WAS THE POST ABOUT PAUSE.SYS
- SO WHY ALL THIS WAIST OF BANDWIDTH?
- --
- Andre Hoekstra
-