Home

• Contact
• Donate
• Privacy /
  Datenschutz
• Imprint /
  Impressum

Products

• BATT
• BOOTMGR
• C2EAUTO
• DIVT
• DRVEXCH
• EIDL
• FIX8X14
• MOS6502
• NOKEYB
• OB
• PAUSE
• PVLDR
• RA
• SBMIX
• UPXDUMP
• X

Hosted products

• FED
• Free Software for DOS
• Insight
• VGAPaint 386
• By Jürgen Hoffmann

Ports & builds

Articles

Links

Forum

Products /
C2EAUTO

Copyright © 2021 Robert Riebisch
[Under  Fair License]

About

C2EAUTO allows to skip processing C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT on the Vobis  Highscreen Handy Organizer ( #2) palmtop PC to prevent loading the standard DOS keyboard driver KEYB.COM (and the command-line editor DOSKEY.COM on early models). This allows better customization, e.g., more free RAM or using alternative software, for the user.

File C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT is in ROM (read-only memory) on this palmtop PC. That prevents editing, renaming, or deleting. So I came up with this tiny 'fake' device driver to intercept DOS functions 'create or truncate file' and 'open existing file'. C2EAUTO redirects any access to file C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT (but not c:\autoexec.bat or mixed-case variants) to a file of the same name on drive E:.

System Requirements

• Intel 8086/88 microprocessor (or compatibles)
• Microsoft MS-DOS 2.0 (or compatibles)

Download

Release 1 (2021-06-24)

Version History

(File size: 205 bytes. RAM footprint: 80 bytes.)

• Initial public release

Files

• c2eauto1.zip (4.5 Kbytes) – Binary, manual, source code.

Page last modified on 2021-06-24.
Copyright © 1997-2024 BTTR Software. All rights reserved.
Favicon contributed by Paul Blair. Used with permission.