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All those autoexec and config files!

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Something I've wanted to know for a while:

I understand what config.sys and autoexec.bat files are. Then there's config.dos and autoexec.dos, which I guess are used for DOS environment. But often on computers there are a myriad of config and autoexec files eg..
autoexec.001, autoexec.002, autoexec.003, autoexec.b01,autoexec.m01, autoexec.m02, autoexec.m03, autoexec.mtm and similar for config.
Why are there so many different files and what are they for?
I thought the idea was that anything that needed configuring all got done in config.sys?

Many of these are very similar or identical in content. I'm trying to resolve a hang on restart issue and want to look at these files for clues.

System is Win98SE
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Typically those are ones that were backed up before some other program that was installed modified the real autoexec.bat and config.sys files.

Take a look at the difference. A lot of times it is something that simply got added to the path.
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