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Re: Problems with dosstart.bat and exiting to DOS for some apps - HELP

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From: Jeff Holloway
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 00:00

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pedro (pedro@digital.net) wrote:

: >>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.

: >This is quite a nasty problem in win95. The easiest way out of this is
: >to rename the autoexec.bat and config.sys files or delete them
: >altogether in order to get back to win95.

: From a command prompt type Win /WX and it will boot back to Win95.

I think his problem was that he COULDN'T GET to a command prompt. But if he
boots off his startup disk, and removed the dos=single line in his config.sys,
he can then boot into 95 normally on the next bootup.
--
Jeff
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From: jeffh@industrial.com (Jeff Holloway)
Subject: Re: Problems with dosstart.bat and exiting to DOS for some apps - HELP
Date: 1996/06/13
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