> I don't remember what they mean or do now of course.
I can help with some of it, if my memory isn't playing tricks:
> @ECHO OFF
The "@" kept DOS from displaying the information in that line. ECHO OFF
kept DOS from displaying any of the subsequent file.
> PROMPT $p$g
If I remember, "$p" caused the active drive/path to be displayed and "$g"
caused the colon to be displayed. Those two lines above were almost
automatic for everyone's autoexec.bat.
> PATH C:\DOS;c:\log
Sets the path(s) that DOS will recognize from anywhere (whatever directory
you happen to be in, no matter how many levels deep, you can still execute
a command in C:\DOS or c:\log just by typing the (executable) filename.
I think all the command line commands were not case sensitive. In the
above line, PATH C:\DOS was probably copied from some existing file and
c:\log was typed in by the user who didn't bother capitalizing it.
> set TZ=UTC
Automatically converts computer time to UTC.
> LH /L:0;1,42384 /S C:\DOS\SMARTDRV.EXE
Well, the specifics are fuzzy, but "LH" meant "load high" which indicated the
area above 640K. I suspect the next characters are the initial address and
the number of bytes to set aside. Don't remember what the switch "\S" did,
and the path/filename was what was to be "loaded high."
> C:\DOS\smartdrv/c
Causes DOS to load smartdrive (don't remember what the switch "/c" did).
> C:
Returns the user to the root directory upon completion of the batch file.
That's how I remember it.
So, there's really only a couple of things that remain "mysterious"--the
parameters for loading smartdrv high and the parameter called when
executing smartdrv. Those should be easy to find on the internet.
--
73, Rod
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