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Starting Your Application Program
Once you have loaded MS-DOS, you can start using your
application program. Remove your MS-DOS diskette from drive
A and insert your application program diskette.
Once you start using your application program, you see the
prompts and screen displays that are unique to the application
program. See your application manuals for more information.
Using an AUTOEXEC.BAT File
You may find that there are some commands you want to run
every time you turn on your computer.
To run a command or a series of commands automatically upon
startup, you can type the commands into a batch file called
AUTOEXEC.BAT. MS-DOS automatically looks for this file at
startup. If MS-DOS finds an AUTOEXEC.BAT file in the root
directory, it executes the commands in that file.
If you are using an Apex Plus 20, Epson has included an
AUTOEXEC.BAT file in the root directory of your hard disk. It
contains these commands:
ECHO OFF
PATH C:\;C:\DOS;C:\BASIC
PROMPT SPSG
CLS
The first line instructs MS-DOS not to display the commands in
the batch file before executing them. The second line sets a
command search path; now MS-DOS automatically looks for
programs in the root directory (C:\), the DOS directory, and
the BASIC directory as well as the current directory. The third
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