From: rpolzer AT web DOT de (Rudolf Polzer)
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Subject: Re: windows ME is not for me
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> schrieb Folgendes:
> [Could you *please* remember to hit <Return> every once in a while?]

I never do this. I think he should get a newsreader...

> 
> frans nagel <fransrn AT altavista DOT com> wrote:
> [Reformatted:]
> > Dear makers of a fantastic compiler that I love very much.How do we
> > deal with Microsoft? First they throw out config.sys and autoexec.bat
> > so that your compiler doesn't work ( I get an EINVAL error that i
> > never get under windows98) 
> 
> You don't need config.sys for DJGPP, and autoexec.bat is only one of
> many ways of setting it up. For Win9x, you can just as easily create a
> special shortcut to command.com with a 'startup batch file', into
> which you can put the set DJGPP and PATH commands.

When you put something in your AUTOEXEC.BAT and then start the system
configuration program, the environment variables are put into the
registry.

> > and I hear that next they're going to get rid of DOS!
> 
> They're not getting rid of DOS, they just don't want it as the
> basement for Windows 9x any more. I.e. ME moved one step further in
> the direction of NT, where DOS runs on top of Windows, rather than the
> other way round.

ME is no step nearer to NT than 98. The DOS mode is still accessible using
a patch; it has just been disabled to make it look "more advanced".

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