Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!purdue!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cica!ctrsol!ginosko!uunet!ssbell!mcmi!amperif!unocss!ho@fergvax.unl.edu From: ho@fergvax.unl.edu (Tiny Bubbles...) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: What files MUST be in the root directory? Message-ID: <1445@unocss.UUCP> Date: 13 Aug 89 23:13:35 GMT References: <5190031@hplsla.HP.COM> Sender: news@unocss.UUCP Reply-To: ho@fergvax.unl.edu Lines: 20 From article <5190031@hplsla.HP.COM>, by davidr@hplsla.HP.COM (David M. Reed): > The two boot files are already hidden, so you do not see them. You can > move COMMAND.COM out of the root directory, as many have suggested, but > you should not make it a hidden or read-only file because many programs > will stumble. But it really handy to make the CONFIG and AUTOEXEC files What happens when you set your COMMAND.COM to read-only? A long time ago, when the big virus scare was up, I changed my COMMAND to read-only... no bad things have happened to me yet. Wonder what's coming. Blah, blah, blah. I have an ornery post program. It gets mad when I don't waste bandwidth at the bottom of an article where I quoted a bunch of text with a quick question or answer. Blah, blah, blah. Boo! --- ... Michael Ho, University of Nebraska