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- From: brown@NCoast.ORG (Stan Brown)
- Subject: Re: Novice question: how to boot from a bat file?
- Organization: Oak Road Systems, Cleveland Ohio USA
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 02:21:38 GMT
- Message-ID: <Bttt82.53K@NCoast.ORG>
- References: <1992Aug30.033912.729@u.washington.edu> <adgn1#p.messina@netcom.com>
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- In article [reference deleted because I don't want to embarrass the
- poster publicly]
-
- >>My problem is I don't know how to emulate the cntry-al-delete boot that
- >>the user would normally type in to have these new files take effect.
- >
- >Since it seems to be a twice-a-week question, here is a uuencoded program
- >that will do it:
-
- [code deleted]
-
- and, if you're running SMARTDRV or other write-behind disk caches, it
- stands an excellent chance of trashing your hard disk.
-
- There's a reason we have an FAQ list, folks, not just to reduce the number
- of repetitive questions posted but also to reduce the number of
- incomplete or (as in this case) dangerously incomplete answers posted.
-
- If you think something is wrong or missing in the FAQ list, by all means
- let me know and I'll be happy to make the improvement. But when a topic
- has been done to death, as this one was maybe two months ago, please
- don't start all over with the old disinformation.
- --
- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems brown@Ncoast.ORG
- "Self-esteem, n. An erroneous appraisement."
- "Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else."
- --Ambrose Bierce
-