[Ham-Computers] Refresh my DOS memory

[Ron Youvan]

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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^)

> 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.
> >

  You also MUST have "command.com"  If you format any disk with /s the
three required files will be copied to the floppy for you.
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   Ron  KA4INM - I think I could live on my pay if 
		 governments didn't take half!