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rolfe@pt9525.ped.pto.ford.com (David Rolfe) wrote:

>James E. Kemp (jkemp@cts.com) wrote:
>: Hi Henry,

>: hlamuth@infinet.com (Henry LaMuth) wrote:

>: >dgerber@compusmart.ab.ca (zymurgy) wrote:

>: What you have to do is select specify new config.sys and autoexec.bat
>: for each DOS program. This will save a config.sys and autoexec.bat
>: file just for that program. I use these configurations all the time.
>: The only draw back is the system boots before running these programs.
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>This has to be one of the nastiest kludges in WIN95.  Be warned that if
>the game you're running craps out while you're playing it in this mode
>and if you have to reset your system, WIN95 will reboot your system back
>to the game.  A friend of mine had this happen to him and it took him
>quite a while to get everything back in place so that WIN95 booted
>properly.

>I think if  you need to have WIN95 boot your system in order to play a
>game, you'd be better off either creating a boot disk for it or
>Restarting to MS-DOS mode (via shutdown) before playing it.

>It's a shame that WIN95 couldn't handle these things more like OS/2 where
>you can change many DOS session settings (per DOS app) without having to
>create a new autoexec.bat or config.sys.  WIN95 also shold have gotten a
>real file system like HPFS.  VFAT is another MS nasty kludge.  

>But I digress....

>	dsr
I for one have no problem going to msdos mode from withing win95 to
run a game.  All you need is a nice utility called CTLoad.  It loads
any files normally loaded in the config.sys.  You just put it in the
dosstart.bat file.  Mail driver that you need is for the CDROM.  Once
you have it set up you dont need to mess with your autoexec.bat and
config.sys.  The other option is to have multiple configs set up for
the autoexec.bat and config.sys.  This has been available for since
dos 6.0 or 5.0 (not sure)  You just select the one you need at boot
up.  This eliminates the need for a boot disk.

Jesse