To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Real DOS-Mode Patch for Windows Millennium
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From: Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi>
Date: 09 Jan 2001 09:16:14 +0200
In-Reply-To: Doug Kaufman's message of "6 Jan 2001 17:53:55 GMT"
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Doug Kaufman <dkaufman AT rahul DOT net> writes:

> Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> writes:
> 
> >There is a "Real DOS-Mode Patch for Windows Millennium". I saw a link to
> >this on the FreeDOS mailing list today:
> 
> >    http://www.geocities.com/mfd4life_2000/
> 
> The big problem with this patch is that it is a binary patch which
> comes from a cracks site.

I've seen claimed somewhere that just replacing IO.SYS with the one
from the emergency boot floppy would be enough to enable real DOS-mode
for WinME.  Maybe someone could test if that's true.

-- 
Esa Peuha
student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/~peuha/