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jkemp@cts.com (James E. Kemp) wrote:

>Hi Henry,

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

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

>>>My drivers setup wonderfully in Win 95, but when I go to run certain some 
>>>programs in DOS, I'm having problems.  I am playing with my dosstart.bat file 
>>>in C:\WINDOWS directory, but somethings work and others don't.  Do I follow 
>>>the example of my autoexec.bat or config.sys when creating the dosstart.bat. 
>>> Any other useful ideas would be appreciated.  Exactly what I'm looking for 
>>>is my Video, Sound and CD Drivers to load as in Win95 with minimal grief.

>>>HELP

>>I set up a boot disk with an autoexec and config.sys set up purely for
>>a dos session. Works like a charm. I have all sorts of problems trying
>>the run dos games from win95, though non-games do very well. It is
>>multimedia that just doesn't work from win95 for dos apps.

>>Now, I am trying something else I read about in Windows magazine, p44
>>in the June issue. I should be able to set up a custom config and
>>autoexec for any dos application. They gave a step by step approach
>>that was easy to follow----but I cannot get the new pif file with the
>>pointers to the custom autoexec and config files to be recognized. I
>>am trying to get this one resolved. If I can, it would do away with
>>the the boot disk. Any thoughts by someone out there? I will post the
>>steps for doing it if anyone has a recommendation on how this proceed.

>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.
>I can run Advanced Tactical Fighters from Win95 instead of booting old
>dos which I have another primary partition or use a boot disk. 

>Let the pif manager make the files for you. When you select a real
>mode dos program, go to properties, then the program tab, then advance
>near the bottom of the screen. Select "specify new config.sys and
>autoexec.bat." Place in the edit boxes the drivers and set envoiroment
>commands as you normally would, even place emm386.exe and himem.sys in
>the config.sys box. Remember these files are now in your
>C:\Windows\Command\ directory. This will get you conventional memory
>back also. 

>You can then load what drivers you need and not load other driver's
>you don't need. My original config.sys and autoexec.bat files in my
>root directory have nothing in them. This way Win95 can load it's
>protected mode drivers when I'm not running any real mode DOS
>programs.


Jim----I think its Jim: the headers on the messages and replies are
confusing, but it seem that Jim is the poster I am replying to
<G>....Thanks for the quick response. .I will be a day or so getting
to the suggestions you gave me. I have replaced the autoexec and
config in the new dos configuration windows and I thought I set the
switches. Seems as if the pif is not being seen. It exists, because I
found it in the correct windows subdirectory, but the program doesn't
seem to be accessing it through the shortcut. That's why I am sure I
have missed a step somewhere.

Henry