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Re: Further to XY under XP: finding config.xy

Robert Holmgren wrote:
My previous attempts to embed
commands in autoexec.nt (or autoxy.nt) failed.


Then you're doing something wrong. The AUTOEXEC certainly,
absolutely works.
Hmm. The CD command took, the log to drive (d:) didn't.
Irrelevant now, since I set all that in XpXyStart.int, but I
wonder why?


Every DOS session is unique in NT -- there
is no master underlying DOS session to adjust. Every local DOS
session inherits certain global settings as an environmental
starting point. There has to be a (non-DOS) place to enter
those global settings, and the System tab of Control Panel is
that place. That's how it is. Accept it.
I'm perfectly willing to accept it, now that I know it. What I
object to is its being kept a deep, dark secret. I have two books
and innumerable magazine articles, but none of them explains this
inner working, which is what one needs to know.

Now, within any one DOS session, you can CERTAINLY redefine the
PATH or any other DOS parameter, on the command line or within a
batchfile. But when you close that session, your settings are
gone -- because DOS is gone.

So that's why you want to set those parameters in the shortcut,
where you can specify that they be saved for other instances of
that application or command prompt? OK, that makes sense, but I
didn't know that.

I am profoundly grateful for all this explanation, but I wish I
could find it somewhere (in a book or something I can read on a
bus or waiting for a council meeting to start or eating lunch,
not on my PC's screen, eating up electricity).


--
Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx