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

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From: A Chan
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.



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From: ace@iohk.com (A Chan)
Subject: Re: Problems with dosstart.bat and exiting to DOS for some apps - HELP
Date: 1996/06/08
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