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echo: win32
to: CHUMA AGBODIKE
from: TORBJORN MOHN
date: 1998-04-07 19:47:00
subject: Scandisk at system start up

>> Yeah!! Great! Tell me now, how on earth do you run autoexec.bat in Windows
>> NT? There is no autoexec.bat in NT!!! NT uses a boot manager, NOT the DOS
>> config and autoexec.bat files.
> Actually NT can and does use AUTOEXEC & CONFIG. In fact you can provide
> each DOS app its own AUTOEXEC.NT and CONFIG.NT in a PIF . Its all part
> of the beauty of the environmental subsystems of NT. NTVDM in case of DOS.
Who mentioned these files then?
> Although Scandisk is not necessary in properly configured NT. But why not
> use NTFS like someone suggested. ??
Go back and read WHAT i commented on. You seem to have lost the whole point 
here. There is absolutely NO WAY, that you can run a scandisk utility from 
autoexec.bat files in NT, because autoexec.bat files are NOT beeing used 
during NT startup. That's was what my rather ironic comment was about.
Off cours I know that NT uses autoexec.nt for running DOS programs in 
NTVDM's. If you read again, what I wrote is correct, isn't it? I did not, nor 
did the person whom I responded to, talk about autoexec.nt at all, did we?
But was that the issue at all here? No... My comment was to indicate to the 
the guy giving the advice that it was a rather bad one, in that it was not at 
all correct.
But this is rather off topic now I think, so if you want to respond to this, 
I think Netmail is a better place for it.:)
Torbj|rn
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