Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/01/25/21:46:07
Mind-control rays from black helicopters made Dave Bird
<dave AT xemu DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> write:
>In article <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 990124192330 DOT 9257B-100000 AT is>, Eli Zaretskii
><eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes
>>On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Ralph Proctor wrote:
>>
>>> Now, would you state if it is true that it is possible to run in DOS on a
>>> Windows 95 and above machine WITH NO INTERFERENCE OR
>>> INVOLVEMENT FROM Windows?
>>
>>I'm not really sure what you are asking about.
>
>I think he means: if he "RESETS THE MACHINE INTO DOS MODE",
>can he be assured that Win95 is utterly gone,
>until put back by actually re-booting.
So-called 'MS-DOS Mode' leaves a stub in memory, so that Win95
restarts when you type EXIT. I witnessed apparent interference from
this stub with Novell ODI network drivers (LSL.COM, IPXODI.COM, etc.)
To get rid of the stub:
cd \
attrib -h -r -s msdos.sys
edit msdos.sys
{ Find the [Options] section }
{ Add or change the line "BootGUI=0" }
{ Exit editor }
attrib +h +r +s msdos.sys
This will cause only DOS 7 to load when the system boots. You can
still type 'win' to load Win95, and get back to DOS 7 when Win95
shuts down (like Win 3.1).
I don't know about flight simulators, but some old DOS software (e.g.
AutoCAD r12) has ill-behaved DOS extenders that just won't work in a
Windows DOS box.
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