[MENU]
menuitem=Games
menuitem=Network
menuitem=Scanner
menuitem=Games & Network
menudefault=Games,10

[Games]
Put everything here pertaining to game requirements. IE any joystick loading etc.

[Network]
Put anything here required for network.

[Scanner]
Put anything here required for Scanner.

[Games & Network]
Put anything here required for both Games & Network. In most cases will be a repeat of each of the sections above.

[COMMON]
SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /P /E:32768
DEVICEHIGH /L:1,12048 =C:\WINDOWS\SETVER.EXE
DOS=HIGH
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS
BUFFERS=40,0
FILES=150
DOS=UMB
LASTDRIVE=Z
FCBS=16,0

Begin your file with the [MENU] command. Follow it with the different menu items you wish to have.

The menudefault line indicates which menu item to select after so many seconds if the user has not selected one. In this case, Games will be chosen after 10 seconds.

Your config.sys MUST then have a TAG for each menu item you have setup. Even if it does not have anything in it in the config.sys but only the autoexec.bat, it must be setup with nothing following it at least, ie:
[Scanner]
[Games & Network]

The [COMMON] tag is optional and may be used for command lines that each configuration will share. Rather than repeating the same command in every tag, follow all tags with [COMMON] and put in the shared commands.

rem multiple configuration set up July 15, 1997 by nkt
 

PROMPT=$P$G

SET SOUND=C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\AUDIOAPP
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6
SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E MODE:0

IF %CONFIG%==Games & Network GOTO Games

GOTO %CONFIG%

:Games
rem here you would load your joysticks, and/or whatever is necessary for your games.

IF %CONFIG%==Games & Network GOTO Network
GOTO END

:Network
rem here load your network commands. I prefer keeping my network commands in a separate .bat file and calling that .bat file from here.
GOTO END

:Scanner
rem load your scanner stuff here
GOTO END

:END

SET PATH = C:;C:\a\vj\EAB\jdk\bin;C:\a\vj\EAB\bin;C: \a\vj\EAB\odbc32;C:\D2\BIN;C:\D2\FUNCTION ;C:\D2\SNA\SYSTEM;C:\A\J1\BIN;C:\A\ZIP;c: \COREL\OFFICE7\SHARED\TRUEDOC\BIN

Set NWLANGUAGE=ENGLISH
LASTDRIVE=Z
doskey

rem = a REMARK. If you want to comment on what you have done, begin the line with “rem.”

The “PROMPT” command tells what to use for the command prompt. In this case $P$G will make the command line be a:
C:\>

Put anything here that is shared by all configurations. Sometimes you may put some shared things at the very bottom instead, depending on how they have to be loaded during boot.

In this case I am loading Soundblaster stuff. If you are low on memory, you might want soundblaster to be disabled for certain instances and would include it separately.

If the configuration tag selected by the user in the config.sys is equal to Games & Network, you can tell it to GOTO Games. Then after Games has completed, you check again and tell it to go to Network.

This saves you from having to duplicate information in a :Games & Network tag.

The “GOTO %CONFIG%” command tells the .bat file to go to the TAG for the configuration selected by the user from the config.sys file.

Now you can put your tags. Put a COLON followed by the tag exactly as input in the config.sys file menuitem. Not with braces as in the config.sys.

After each tag section is complete, use GOTO END to exit that tag and go to the :END tag below. Following :END can be nothing or whatever other shared commands there are.

I’ve found that since I use a lot of different programming environments, my path statement length often exceeds the DOS character limit. In that case, I must have multiple configurations dependent upon the programming environment I intend to use so that I can load a different path statement for each TAG selected.

Otherwise, your path statement can be after the :END tag, shared by all.