Category : Files from Magazines
Archive   : VOL11N09.ZIP
Filename : BOOT.BAT
IF "%1"=="" GOTO ERROR
IF NOT EXIST C:\SYSTEM\%1.SYS GOTO ERROR
IF NOT EXIST C:\SYSTEM\%1.BAT GOTO ERROR
COPY C:\SYSTEM\%1.SYS C:\CONFIG.SYS >NUL
COPY C:\SYSTEM\%1.BAT C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT >NUL
REBOOT
:ERROR
ECHO Syntax: BOOT system, where "system" is the name of the startup
ECHO files you want to boot from, without the .BAT or .SYS file
ECHO name extension. Existing startup files are:
DIR C:\SYSTEM\*.SYS
Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!
This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.
But one thing that puzzles me is the “mtswslnkmcjklsdlsbdmMICROSOFT” string. There is an article about it here. It is definitely worth a read: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mtswslnk/