Tandy 1000 MS-DOS Reference Manual page 345

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Appendix B
CONFIGURING YOUR SYSTEM
To configure your system to accommodate various peripheral
devices, you can create a file named CONFIG.SYS. This is an
ASCII file of commands that you want MS-DOS to execute on
startup. If CONFIG.SYS is present in the root directory of your
system disk, MS-DOS automatically reads the file during start-
up and executes the commands it finds there.
If there is no CONFIG.SYS file on your MS-DOS system disk,
you can use EDLIN to create the file. (See Part 3 for information
on creating files with EDLIN.) You can also create a CON-
FIG.SYS file with the COPY command:
copy con conflg.5y5[ENTER!
The cursor blinks as the system waits for you to enter text-in
this case, the CONFIG.SYS commands. Regardless of how you
create the file, press
(l[]
to end input and to save on disk the
lines you typed. Again, be sure to save CONFIG.SYS in your
system root directory so that MS-DOS can execute it on startup.
Because MS-DOS executes CONFIG.SYS only at startup, MS-
DOS does not recognize new commands in CONFIG.SYS until
you reboot. Therefore, always reboot the computer each time you
add commands to the file.
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