Erstellt : Freitag dem 17.04.98                         Erhalten am 19.04.98
von      : *Raymond Beriau@1:242/105* an *Claus Mueller*
Hallo Raymond,
RB>>> Well, no matter what I do and what I try, I cannot get 4DOS to call
RB>>> (load) directly 4DOSEXEC.BAT - for some unknown reasons, 4DOS always
RB>>> call (load) AUTOEXEC.BAT first.
RB>>>
RB>>> Why? What am I doing wrong?
CM>> What if you haven't specified the right path to your 4dos.ini in the
CM>> shell statement?
RB> Sorry, but I am not that dumb!
Sorry. I once had that problem. With a 4dos.ini left from the time when I  
switched from ndos and had int in my path. Then decided to have separat  
directories for each component and version, but stepped into the trap of  
getting a wrong 4dos.ini when not using the "location od ini-file" directive  
in the shell statement.
RB> The 4DOS.INI file and/or the SHELL statement in CONFIG.SYS would be
RB> the first place that I would check for wrong path statement and/or
RB> wrong filename...
That's what I did, but didn't knew that the 4dos.ini was taken from the first 
 
in the path and not from the directory where 4dos is started from if the  
parameter is ommitted.
RB> The next time, please read the previous messages before you decide to
RB> give such stupid advice...
Here they arived in reverse order, as you by now may have recognized reading  
my answers.
What I have seen by now, there isn't a mistake to stupid. You (or anybody  
else including me) stumbles into all traps a software sets up. Even if you  
wrote it yourself or especially when you did.
- mfg *Claus* -
 * Already at the origin of the species, man was the equal to what he was
   destined to become. - Jean Rostand
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