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Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 15:47:36
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From: Ralph Proctor <ralphgpr AT shadow DOT net>
Subject: Re: DJGPP installer done, what to do with it?
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At 02:51 PM 4/5/99 +1000, you wrote:
>>Updating autoexec.bat is not always the correct thing to do.  I've
>>heard that in Windows 98 it doesn't work that way :-(
>
>This has been bugging me for a while. On my PC with w98 updated from w95, my
>autoexec.bat still gets parsed, whereas on my dad's new toshiba laptop with
>a clean w98 install, it seems to skip over some things. Can't M$
>decide on anything???
>
>--
>Johan Venter (aka sphinX)
>ICQ 3643877

It's good to tell the installer what to do with his AUTOEXEC. BAT and
CONFIG.SYS
files and not intrude. It doesn't hurt to learn some things in the process,
but it can
make a mess if it does not go well on an automatic editing of these files,
IMHO.