help me create a DOS 6.22 autoexec.bat file

[amigo]

Hi All,

We have this old PC at work running MSDOS 6.22. The autoexec file was accidentally deleted. We have to manually enter the exe file to run the program. I am not familiar with batch file programming so please bear with me.

The file is located in C:\LIS and I want LIS.EXE to load automatically.

Thanks in advance.

[RJ]

add the line

C:LIS\LIS.EXE

to the end of the autoexec.bat file.
The first part of the autoexec.bat depends on the PC configuration.

RJ

[Mesaeus]

There might have been other important lines in autoexec.bat, if you post the contents of CONFIG.SYS here, I'll check what you have to add. Also, do you need a mouse driver for that program ?

[amigo]

Mesaeus
I'm gonna check the config.sys when I get back to work tomorrow. No mouse for this machine, certainly mouse driver is not needed. And no CDROM drive too.

I guess this machine was formatted and no batch file was created, or maybe it was deleted. (Sorry, I dunno the history of this machine).

[glc]

Are there any backup files? See if there's an autoexec.bak or something like that - you may be able to rename one of them to autoexec.bat.

[amigo]

I could not find a config.sys and an autoexec backup file but I have gotten the machine to work by trial and error. Here's what I did:

@echo off
CD C:\LIS
C:\LIS\LIS.EXE

Thanks for your inputs.

[RJ]

The CD C:\LIS is not necessary as you wrote down the complete path in C:\LIS\LIS.EXE.

So you can remove that CD line.

RJ

[amigo]

Thanks for the info RJ. I'm gonna edit it and do the same thing on other machines.