So, next up is going to be making some edits to our autoexec.bat file here we already
have the command typed in, to open the Edit program and have the Edit program
open up our autoexact.bat file. So, we will go ahead and execute that now the
first thing to go into the file is the command @echo off what this does is tells DOS
to read the contents of this file but don't print any information on the
screen it's going to make the boot up process a little bit quicker and we
generally know what the file is going to execute so we don't need to see
confirmation prompt after every single thing. BAT files are intended to
execute a series of commands for you
these are ones that we want executed every time we turn on the computer so
you don't have to sit there at the Prompt every time and type in a bunch of
commands to you can setup the operating environment that we wanted to be the
next item to put here in the file is going to be path that is C:\DOS
\MSCDEX and we're going to use the switch were the device name and
this needs to be the same device name to be set in our config.sys files in my
case is going to be BTC the follow up item here is going to be you prompt that
is going to be $P$G those are also referred to as strings
essentially is a variable we are telling the prompt to display the path and drive
letter followed by the greater sign Now, that concludes the basic setup for
the autoexec.bat.file. What we can do now
is save the file and exit and then go into a quick demonstration of what the
prompt commands look like so using prompt
you can have the prompts say anything you want it doesn't have to be C:\>
as seen here we could have the prompt say
something like "How may I help you?" Now, every time you type in a command this is what you will get
instead of C:\>. you can take in anything
you want here we wanted to go back into the Edit application you can do it we're
just changing the display on the prompt so there are things you can do it this
using the variables that we talked about you can tell the prompts to display
something like time using
string T or $T so that's checking the system BIOS and pulling time that
was from there there's this series is a link in the description for what you can
change your prompt to we can do a little bit more complicated one so $V
is going to be the version $D is going to tell us the date we want the time in
there and then we want path followed by the greater than sign so we just put a number
of variables into the prompt command so every time we type in a command it's
going to display all these things the version, the date and time. and then the path
if you just wanted to have the date and time in there you could do that If you want to
have just the version or any combination of these things there's quite a bit you
can do to change how the prompt is displayed thanks for stopping by please
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