How do I edit a *.dos file? Notepad = garbled text

[dlevens]

I have no idea where to post this question, hoping someone here might be able to point me in the right direction.

I am trying to edit or at least read a file called pcidet.dos that symantec ghost boot disk uses to detect network cards. There is code in it that copies files from one folder to another depending on what network card it finds. I am trying to incorporate this into my master boot disk but if I move the net folder from the root of the drive this pcidet.dos fails to copy the files.

I am trying to open it up and modify it to tell it where the folder is it should copy to.

So far when I open it up in textpad or even a hex editor I see a lot of numbers on the left and some garbled words on the right. So I assumed this meant it was in hex?

If anyone can show me how to read this and edit it I would greatly appreciate it. I have attached the file.

Dennis

[CoffeeFiend]

You can edit it with a hex editor, but I doubt you'll make much sense out of it. If you want PCI network card auto detection and associated NDIS2 drivers, check out the old bart bootdisks. I've customized one of those (I kept some modules but autoexec.bat/config.sys are redone from scratch and optimized, and a few more changes, then burnt as a bootcd) and it supports hundreds of NICs (and it has just about everything you could possibly need such as ghost, ntfsdos pro, partition magic and all).

You could also use WinPE too... Lots of people are moving to that, but in most cases, it takes more time to boot to the GUI than it takes me to get the job finished with the old bootcd.

[dlevens]

Yeah I tried a hex editor and it was too garbled to make much sense of it. I do have the bart network boot disk already working and setup to run from my usb flash pen drive but I like how fast the symantec ghost pcidet.dos works for ghost and wanted to have that as well. I can already make it work but I have to keep the net folder on the root of my pen drive. This really is not a big deal but my goal was to make a nice clean ultimate pen drive boot disk by moving every boot disk to thier own folders under a boot folder like this

boot/98

boot/bartnbd

boot/ghost

And then I keep only the autoexec.bat, io.sys and config.sys on the root of the pen drive. Using config.sys for my menu to choose which boot folder to run and then using autoexec.bat to call the right batch file to kick it off.

This works great but I cannot move the net folder for ghost off the root without modifying this pcinet.dos file.

Oh well I can keep it on root for now.

Dennis