[arachne] Re: ?win98 boot into dos by default?

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On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:33:26 +0000, Udo Kuhnt wrote:

> Of course you can name the batch file and win.com whatever you like.
> IIRC, I only chose the name win.bat and renamed win.com because some
> programs called WIN on their own, and that way they could be tricked
> into calling win.bat instead of win.com.

I take your point!

I haven't come across any programs that call WIN, so I was unaware of
the problem.

It is similar to the way LIST.COM calls EDIT. I created EDIT.BAT to
direct List's edit function to where _I_ wanted it to go <GGGG>

    
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