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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 13:44:16 -0400
From: "Rolf Campbell" <cp1v45 AT nortelnetworks DOT com>
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Subject: Re: New guy having installation difficulties
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Nate Eldredge wrote:
>
> > I've heard about this before but never really paid attention (I didn't
> > have 98 then but I do now).  Do you feel like explaining again how the
> > AUTOEXEC weirdness works?
> If you are asking *why* is it tricky to find the correct AUTOEXEC.BAT,
> then I don't know (didn't have yet the dubious pleasure of installing
> Windows 98).  Anybody?

    It depends on how you install it.  On my installation, there is only 1
autoexec.bat file, and it is always used.  The problems occur when you use
a 'restart in dos mode' that needs to load some weird things into memory
(special drivers/TSR's/RAM-drives).  Windows needs to do a real-reboot to
load these drivers correctly (I don't know why...).  So they make a new
autoexec file with that new settings in it (along with a config.sys) and
they replace the real ones just before the reboot, then they put the
originals back if you type "win" from the DOS session, and then it restarts
the machine.

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