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Article #233Re: Problems with dosstart.bat and exiting to DOS for some apps - HELP
From: A Chan
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1996 00:00
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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. 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. _________________ ace@iohk.com Andrew - Hongkong
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10c888,31966f3dffe604e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c888,public X-Google-Thread: 1025cc,31966f3dffe604e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025cc,public X-Google-Thread: 10d516,31966f3dffe604e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d516,public X-Google-Thread: 10dc12,31966f3dffe604e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid10dc12,public X-Google-Thread: f6d47,31966f3dffe604e0 X-Google-Attributes: gidf6d47,public X-Google-Thread: 104cb0,31966f3dffe604e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid104cb0,public From: ace@iohk.com (A Chan) Subject: Re: Problems with dosstart.bat and exiting to DOS for some apps - HELP Date: 1996/06/08 Message-ID: <4pce89$5ul@ibridge.iohk.com> X-Deja-AN: 159210313 references: <4np1a0$neg@bert.compusmart.ab.ca> <4oa4ma$c5i@news1.infinet.com> <4oaks6$33h@news3.cts.com> <4ovmo4$dh@pt9201.ped.pto.ford.com> organization: Internet OnLine HK Ltd. newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,alt.os.windows95.crash.crash.crash,demon.ip.support.win95,uk.comp.os.win95