Hey folks,<P>My system was ailing and I discovered the config.sys and autoexec.bat were to blame. I disabled these in startup using "msconfig" at run. Now it runs pretty well.<BR>2 questions. I've ...
What to know before you dig into the startup areas Back in the days of DOS, if a program was automatically loading when a computer started up, there were only two places that the program could have ...
Since I made the leap a few months ago from writing on a CP/M machine to writing on an MS-DOS machine, I`ve been in awe of how complex MS-DOS sometimes is. I turned on the Kaypro 4 the other day, and ...
Mainly just curious. I myself haven't really come across anything all that odd unfortunately. Long maybe, like the Win98 boot floppies and such, but nothing really crazy or anything. I do know there ...
In this example, the OPTIONS statement sets some SAS system options, and the LIBNAME statement assigns a libref. Note: Some SAS system options can be specified only when you invoke SAS. These system ...
As I was mentioning last week, some things about computing seem needlessly difficult. If you bought your MS-DOS machine from a good store or had a friend tinker with it, you might notice that your ...
Starting with DOS 6, there were multiple startup options for the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files. The user could bypass them, decide which lines to execute or set up multiple configurations for ...