config.sys menu

[Derek Martin]

Today, Lars Kellogg-Stedman gleaned this insight:

> > I beg to differ. Under DOS 5, the menus are set up under config.sys. I used 
> > to boot Linux from a menu in config.sys back in the Windoz 3.1 daze.
> 
> All right, I'll bite.  In my DOS days, menus were generally set up
> as batch files with a series of @echo statements and some way of handling
> user selections.
> 
> How did you accomplish this using items in config.sys?

I think Jerry meant DOS 6... which does indeed support configuration menus
in config.sys -- allowing your system to boot with different device
drivers loaded, since some programs used one method of beating the 640K
limitation while others used a second, and still others used something
completely different...  Some programs also had a tendency to flake out
when certain hardware was installed.  Ugh.

It was a crockish hack... but it did work.  Kinda.


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