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Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 19:40:15 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Real DOS-Mode Patch for Windows Millennium
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > This may be useful to those Windows ME & DJGPP users out there.
> 
> Is there any specific DJGPP-related problem that you think this patch
> could help work around?

No, but for those who pine for the days when you could boot Windows '9x to
a DOS prompt (*), it may be useful. ;)

(*) when men were real men and mice were real mice, etc., etc.

> AFAIK, there's no known problem on ME (or on any other Windows system)
> that requires to go to DOS Mode.

IIRC some things are better done under DOS than a DOS box under Windows.
Writing RedHat Linux install disks using rawrite is one thing that springs
to mind. Some rescue disks require you to be able to boot into plain DOS
and are built from your current operating system files. Maybe these rescue
disks don't work with Windows ME?

Clearly, nothing that is directly DJGPP-related.

Bye, Rich =]

-- 
Richard Dawe
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