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HP-95LX config.sys & autoexec.bat Message #1 Posted by Johnny on 26 Feb 2002, 8:56 a.m. Aloha! Does somebody know how to make the HP-95LX use config.sys autoexec.bat files, that I created? At execution of command.com they have no effect... Thanks! Johnny

Re: HP-95LX config.sys & autoexec.bat Message #2 Posted by thibaut.be on 27 Feb 2002, 1:03 p.m., in response to message #1 by Johnny I may be wrong, but i thought these files are rom files and cannot be modified. Otherwise if you corrupt these files the 95LX won't start... for ever ! Cheers, Thibaut

Re: HP-95LX config.sys & autoexec.bat Message #3 Posted by Johnny on 27 Feb 2002, 3:53 p.m., in response to message #2 by thibaut.be Well - I think you _are_ wrong. Theese files are not to be found anywhere in either ROM or RAM. If I make the files myselves, they are completely ignored... Thanks, Johnny

Re: HP-95LX config.sys & autoexec.bat Message #4 Posted by bill smith on 27 Feb 2002, 6:58 p.m., in response to message #3 by Johnny this is so speculative, that i don't consider it advice ;-). i have both a 100LX and 200LX. they have options on reboot (using ctrl-alt-del) that allow one to pick the boot device (A:, C:, D:, etc.) for using various configs. make sure you're not booting off a ROM only drive...point to the one with your files. good luck.

Re: HP-95LX config.sys & autoexec.bat Message #5 Posted by bill duncan on 28 Feb 2002, 11:01 p.m., in response to message #1 by Johnny It's been awhile since I've done this, so this is just from memory. Do you have a manual? I believe there is some information there. As I recall, it was best to create these on drive A: if you had it, as the 95 was pretty pernickity about these files. If the syntax wasn't just right (and they were a little unusual I think in the config.sys) you could end up not being able to boot. If they were on drive A:, you could just unplug it and try again. Of course when you had these files in place, you had to give the machine the three finger salute to take effect. If you don't have a manual, i can try to look it up for you. You also had to specify the "*.EXM" files in the startup files for them to be useable. I forget where they were kept, but again, they had a pernickity syntax. There used to be an ftp site with all this information online, but they've since gone away. I think it was ftp://eddie.mit.edu/ Anyone else with more information? Cheers.

Re: HP-95LX config.sys & autoexec.bat Message #6 Posted by bill duncan on 28 Feb 2002, 11:34 p.m., in response to message #5 by bill duncan I dug out my old 95 and manual (doesn't get alot of use these days). There is a third file specific to HP used in booting, which is a list of hp-95 specific applications and key assignments called "apname.lst". I think it was this that I was really thinking about when I called it peculiar. It's a file of comma-delimited records with filename, hex code and application name. It was this file and something about the config.sys, which if not right would lock up the machine I think. Anyway, you should be able to reboot it with Ctrl-Alt-Del and get it to read the autoexec.bat and config.sys. You might want to put a "pause" in the autoexec.bat in case of trouble. Cheers

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