[Ham-Computers] Refresh my DOS memory

[jeff]

Philip KO6BB wrote:
> I While I USED to be VERY proficient in DOS, it's been many years.  
> Refresh my memory.  Is all I need to do to run a DOS program this way is 
> create a Bootable DOS diskette, put my program on it?  Then boot from 
> that disk and have an autoexec.bat file to auto-magically start the 
> keying program.  Or does the autoexec file also need other commands 
> embedded?  (They say one's memory is the first to go 8^)

ah, the good old days...
AUTOEXEC.BAT
CONFIG.SYS

You need to make the floppy bootable.  IIRC, the command is SYS A: (or 
FORMAT A: /s, I think).  This puts IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS on the disk, 
which is actually what makes it bootable.

If nothing else is needed, you can put the name of the executable in 
AUTOEXEC.BAT and you're off.  You might have to put something like a 
CONFIG.SYS together, with FILES= , if necessary for memory.

That should get you moving.  You can get help in DOS, depending on 
version.  HELP [COMMAND] or COMMAND \?


Good luck.