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From: "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" <moscoop AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: c|net: Microsoft has officially killed MS-DOS.
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 13:37:23 -0400
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Ken Arromdee wrote:

> >If you set BootMenu=1 in msdos.sys, it leaves off options 5 and 6
> >(command prompt and safe mode command prompt).
>
> Not that kind of DOS startup menu.
>
> Under Windows 95, if you set BootGUI=0, you start up in DOS but can type "win"
> to start Windows.  You can then put something in your config.sys and
> autoexec.bat like this:
>
> CONFIG.SYS:
>     [menu]
>     menuitem=win,Windows 95
>     menuitem=dos,MS-DOS

And, I even had a Linux option here (using loadln).  I find it much more
convinent that LILO.

--
(\/) Rolf Campbell (\/)



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