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Thread ID: 37871	2003-09-20 21:00:00	For Dos-heads. An autoexec.bat conundrum, but not life threatening...	Terry Porritt (14)	Press F1

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176692	2003-09-25 23:23:00	I did as you suggested JM, good thinking, but oh dear back to the drawing board. I removed read only attribute from autoexec.bat, switched off, removed the soundcard, switched on and booted into dos. Lo and behold the set blaster command reappeared, so the command is not in any soundcard bios. One thing I have forgotten to mention is that when the set blaster command is written, the mysterious program makes a backup of the existing autoexec and calls it autoexec.fm. Incidently, in Device Manager, the soundcard is listed as Triplex Ma-La-Zi FM801 PCI Audio, that presumably is why the above file extension is .fm. I think I've pretty well done this thing to death, it's a good job this puzzle is not life threatening. The inscrutable Chinese wouldn't write soundcard software that could modify the IO.sys system file would they?? Certainly where this set blaster instruction is coming from is totally inscrutable :)	Terry Porritt (14)
176693	2003-09-26 00:25:00	Oh well, good luck finding out. :) It sure does sound rather strange.	-=JM=- (16)
176694	2003-09-26 05:19:00	Well, Terry, that's easy to check. Even if you havn't got the strings programme, you can use list to look for the string. grep is around for DOS , too ... (I'm sure it would be somewhere in Simetl) and that would look at everything in the root directory verty quickly.	Graham L (2)
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