mun@hpcc01.HP.COM (Duane T. Mun) (11/15/90)
How do you automatically (in win.ini) start a DOS session, as an icon, when Windows "boots up"? I use WINFILE to startup the File Manager, but I can't find one for DOS. Thanks for your help. -- Duane T. Mun (mun@hpcc01.corp.hp.com)
doug@hparc0.HP.COM (Doug Parsons) (11/16/90)
How about in the LOAD= or RUN=... try COMMAND.COM. Make sure that you have a pif file for it to say that you want it windowed, not full screen (or change _DEFAULT.PIF to windowed, which makes all dos programs windowed). Of course, you need to be running in enhanced mode... Doug in Australia.
mavanamm@pb2esac.UUCP (Marnix A. van Ammers) (11/17/90)
In article <2730005@hpcc01.HP.COM> mun@hpcc01.HP.COM (Duane T. Mun) writes: > >How do you automatically (in win.ini) start a DOS session, as an icon, when >Windows "boots up"? > >I use WINFILE to startup the File Manager, but I can't find one for DOS. You have to create a PIF file for your application. Then you can make reference to the PIF file on the "load=" line in your WIN.INI file. So, for example you might create a PIF file (using the PIF editor program) for PROCOMMEXE and call it PROCOMM.PIF . Then you put LOAD = PROCOMM.PIF in your WIN.INI file. I hope I got that right. I'm not at my AT right now. --- Marnix