🚀 go-pugleaf

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.
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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