EFEL
rob HAS MOVEDautoexec.bat (credit: Adam Koford)
Atkelar
@stokes I wonder how many (or few) people still get that
__Miguel_
maxmoon 🌱@nanianmichaels @atkelar @stokes About a decade ago I switched to .sh
It's better ❤️
@utopify_org @nanianmichaels @stokes certainly; but with my background in C#, I went for PowerShell in 2006; it runs on Linux now too, so I'm set.
@utopify_org @atkelar @stokes I've been on Windows my whole life, so I still can't deal with Linux scripting. Too many differences, plus it's much closer to real programming (which I know nothing about).
Hopefully I'll be able to learn more as time goes by, because I've recently migrated to a Linux-only household. The only remaining machine is the Steam gaming server.
@nanianmichaels @utopify_org @stokes whatever true script I need, I write in PowerShell; and the few lines that need shell scripting, I google-cut-and-paste mostly. No sane person would willingly develop that case sensitive jumble of options that are *ix tools; I am willing to bet that it came to that because of "per byte storage billing" back when it was new. The linux idea of tab-completion sucks though.
@atkelar @nanianmichaels @stokes Never heard someone say that tab-completion sucks. It's the most efficient thing in the terminal. But okay, I use zsh for ages and not bash anymore.
@utopify_org @nanianmichaels @stokes what irks me to no end is that tab just shows the options instead of cycling through them. I miss that detail.
LouD
BeBo
CrazyMyra@stokes This takes me back a bit ...
Mike Torr@stokes Presumably his fraudster sibling runs the accounting department. CONFIG.SYS.
Aaron@macronencer @stokes If his sister is a con-artist fig, does that make him a fruit bat?
Pablo Martini@stokes I loved .bat files & now so linux!
The Actual Brian
Health Is Wealth
Virginicus@stokes What would we get if Lee Iacocca was bitten by a vampire?
CautionWIP 🎃+🇨🇦+🏳️🌈= 
@Virginicus @stokes A cocaine-fueled gull-wing casket that only ran at night?
Kai FaSenntao@stokes That is hilarious! Based on his sales chart, he seems to be putting his @ echo-location skills to good use! Sorry…I couldn’t resist.
a wandering happenstance@stokes what’s a vampire’s favorite system file?
AUTOEXEC DOT BAT AH HA HA HA HA
dB Cooper@stokes That bat’s doing great! Sales are way up!
@CoolerPseudonym He's breaking records!
Min HeadroomThis is much funnier than it has any right to be.
48kRAM@stokes Brilliant, mate!
SammyGalen@stokes STEEERRRIIKEEE!!!
(Wait, wrong kind of bat pun...)
Captain Pun Hits!!!
MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Yeah, yeah, I gave a good DOS of pun for this joke.
Captain Pun Strikes again!!!
MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
(Wait, wrong kind of bat pun...)
Captain Pun Hits!!!
MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Yeah, yeah, I gave a good DOS of pun for this joke.
Captain Pun Strikes again!!!
MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Kenadak@stokes PROMPT=$P$G
Raymond Russell@stokes
Their name must be Ed Lin
Their name must be Ed Lin
Charlie Galvin@stokes This file creature will turn your world upside down.
monkeyEcho@stokes threw my dos disk in the trash last week. Even I had to see that I won’t use it anymore. Not an easy decision.
Giftspatz@monkeyEcho @stokes i have still old 3'5 floppy disks somewhere XD not using them anymore, but still remember the times when you had to fiddle with high and low mem to get a game started that needs slightly more memory to start.
Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)
Blippy the Wonder Slug (MOVED)@stokes
☝️ #BatsOfMastodon 🦇 #Batstodon ☝️
😜 Your image has been appropriated for the 🦇 revolution!
MostlyTato@stokes
Very good 😎
Edit: in the nineties I became utterly addicted to Wolfenstein 3D on my flatmate's 486. I hated navigating the DOS prompts to get to the game/dir so he set up a batchfile to run the game when I turned his PC on if I pressed any key.
I spent months playing the game. Eventually he came back one night and forced me to stay up all night to finish it so I'd stop. We were up until the dawn.
Very good 😎
Edit: in the nineties I became utterly addicted to Wolfenstein 3D on my flatmate's 486. I hated navigating the DOS prompts to get to the game/dir so he set up a batchfile to run the game when I turned his PC on if I pressed any key.
I spent months playing the game. Eventually he came back one night and forced me to stay up all night to finish it so I'd stop. We were up until the dawn.
Badscrew@stokes can’t figure it out. Anyone to explain this joke to me?
(No I’m old enough to still remember how to load a CD-ROM driver in DOS)
@Badscrew @stokes I explained it to someone else up above. https://mstdn.ca/@cautionwip/110522989027116184
Actually, if you were loading a CD-Eom driver, you would probably have had to access both config.sys and autoexec.bat..I think? Been so long. Lol
CautionWIP 🇨🇦+🏳️🌈= :CApride: (@[email protected])
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] No reason you would know unless you ever had reason to do any manual configuration of your windows system. In brief : autoexec.bat stood for “automatically executing batch file” It’s an editable file that lives in the root directory of a Dos/windows system and runs when the system starts. It’s used to control environment variables (like language, keyboard type/settings) and launch system utilities.
@cautionwip @stokes yes, both!
@cautionwip @stokes don’t see the joke in the picture still
@Badscrew @stokes I’ll break it down. :)
It’s a bat, sitting in an executive (which is commonly shortened in English to “exec”) office, with profit charts that say “dealerships” and “trucks”, signifying that the company it is representing is in the automotive industry.
“Auto”+”exec”+”bat” = autoexec.bat
😀
@cautionwip @stokes oh it’s a bat. Couldn’t see that, was thinking it’s some kind of sad alien
@cautionwip @stokes precisely
f6itu@[email protected] it's broken, con fix this
lobokai 🌍 🇺🇦 🌳 🌲 🌿🔬🔭⚡
Doc Scrantonhis poor sibling config.sys has to do all the real work over in the garage, tho
Rupert Reynolds@stokes Ah yes. autoexec, the only .bat that doesn't live in c:\belfry\ :-)
yetzt
Noah Mittman 
@stokes Man I wish Koford would get on Masto already
J.P. Stewart
🌪 MikeMathia 📡@mikemathia @jpsays
Someone commented that you can get it at woot.com
@mikemathia @stokes yup! That’s where I got mine… 7 years ago, wow.