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RESET.COM - A Public Domain utility
By Bruce Travers
CIS: 72215,1272
GEnie: TRAVERS
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RESET Version 1.0
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This utility allows you to maintain several different environments
on your PC via several AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files.
Right now I place the restriction that your environments be set up
in a sub directory C:\BOOT and that your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS
files reside on C:\.
USING RESET.COM
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First you must create a directory on your C disk called BOOT. This
directory will contain all your different AUTOEXEC and CONFIG files.
Environments use the following naming conventions:
XXXXXXXX.CON - For a CONFIG.SYS file
XXXXXXXX.AUT - For an AUTOEXEC.BAT file
For example if you wanted an environment which would boot up your
PC and automatically run Sidekick you could name your files
SIDEKICK.CON and SIDEKICK.AUT
or
SK.CON and SK.AUT
The key point is the first 1-8 characters must be the same and the
AUTOEXEC file must end in .AUT, and the CONFIG file in .CON
Once you have several of your favorite combinations of AUT and CON
files in C:\BOOT you can start using RESET.COM.
Syntax: RESET filename
Example: RESET SIDEKICK
or RESET SK
What will happen is the AUT and CON files will be copied over your
AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files on C:\ and your system will reboot.
Notes:
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RESET by itself will cause a re-boot with no copying.
Don't worry that your root directory will not seem to have AUTOEXEC.BAT
or CONFIG.SYS in it. I made them READ ONLY and HIDDEN to prevent
unauthorized tampering. You can still TYPE them though.
If you have an All Charge Card you should use RESETA.COM which will
also reset the charge card thus eliminating strange errors caused by
the mapping not being reset.
If you make a typo or there is not a pair of CON and AUT files to
match what you put for filename, the system will appear to hang. Either
press CONTROL C to return to DOS at this point, or wait a few seconds
for the R)etry, A)bort message from DOS.
This has only been tested on DOS 3.x... If you have anything less and
it doesnt work that is because I used the new 3.x way of opening and
closing files...
RESET Version 1.1
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- Files should no longer get garbled when you overwrite a large CONFIG
or AUTOEXEC with a smaller one.
- For fast machines you may try RESET filename /Px where x is a digit
from 1 to 9. This will cause a slight pause to allow things to
quiet down before rebooting. (1 is about 1/2 second on an 8mhz AT,
9 is about 4 1/5 seconds).
- RESET filename /A can be used to overried the hiding of the files in
your root directory.
- If CONFIG.SYS and/or AUTOEXEC.BAT do not exist then they will
be created by RESET instead of giving you an error.
Well that's about it. If you have any questions/comments or suggestions
please feel free to drop me a line on CompuServe or GEnie. If you want
to make sure I get your messages use EMAIL because I seldom read the
SIG messages.