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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.