Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!iuvax!silver!creps From: creps@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Steve Creps) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Fun with RAM disks (was Re: Improve response time with paths) Message-ID: <509@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> Date: 10 Dec 87 21:43:36 GMT References: <15000048@silver> <1199@lznv.ATT.COM> <2263@techunix.BITNET> <634@astroatc.UUCP> <1211@lznv.ATT.COM> Reply-To: creps@silver.UUCP (Steve Creps) Organization: Indiana University Computer Science Department Lines: 24 One alternative to using floppy disks for different configurations is to use batch files instead. You could have one copy of config.sys for each different configuration you'll need. You could have them called, for example, config.cc (for compiling, maybe use a bigger ramdrive), config.gam (setting up when you'll need to play games (need to?)), and so on. Then you could have a file boot.bat which accepts a parameter (e.g. "cc" or "gam" etc.) and copies the corresponding config file to config.sys, then reboots. e.g. boot.bat: copy config.%1 config.sys copy ___.%1 ___.ext (any other files specific to the config, maybe autoexec) reboot (I've seen a few versions of this around) Now to set up for compiling, just say "boot cc". I don't actually do this myself, since I seldom need to change my configuration, but it's an idea. - - - - - - - - - Steve Creps on the VAX 8650 running Ultrix 2.0-1 at Indiana University. creps@silver.bacs.indiana.edu "F-14 Tomcat! There IS no substitute."