🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 21 Apr 1998 22:44:05 +0100, john <john@broondog.demon.co.uk>
wrote:

>Don`t be a prick !
>If you`ve something to say about the original thread ok.
>don`t rubbish other peoples replies.

I'm here for the data, not for human interaction, and my responses are
issue-focused rather than sensitive about egos and feelings.  

Sometimes I respond less kindly that other times, usually when
dubious, dangerous or flatly incorrect information is presented
forcefully as the Whole And Only Truth.

>your thread is just YOUR opinion.
>Do you really understand what you write, well do ya,,,, punk !

Damn right I do.  

"Punk" I take as a compliment, seeing as I spent 2 years playing
guitar for Private File and bass for Riot Squad in that era   ;-)

OK, from the top, once more with feeling:

>-------

:>No.  Win95 GUI and Win95 MS-DOS Mode are effectively two different
:>operating systems sharing a file system; Windows 95, and the operating
:>system formally known as DOS.  So the drivers are different!

No opinion there, just the way it is.

:>>Your sound card should have drivers for win`95 and dos
:>>Install them seperately
:>>Don`t run any games in win/dos mode.

:>Why not? Works a hell of a lot better than Win3.yuk did!

It is my opinion that running the game without problems is better than
crashing the operating system.  Better now?

:>>Instead make a system floppy and copy your config.sys and
:>>autoexec.bat files onto it.
:>Bad idea.

Reason is that you will end up with a boot diskette that is set up
with a Config.sys and AutoExec.bat that are optimized for the GUI; not
at all useful for running a DOS environment.  In my opinion, that is a
bad idea, compared to files optimized for the DOS environment.

:>>Delete from your c drive the two former files, 95 doesn`t need them.
:>Bad idea.  

Poster might have drivers for some obscure scanner or other device
that are required to run it, or a Set Blaster setting required for the
sound card to work with DOS games, or Path extensions required for DOS
and Windows 3.1x apps to run. If you delete these files (rather than
rename them on a test basis) you lose these settings.  

In my opinion, that's a bad idea.

:>>then before you boot up, stick ya floppy in !
:>Worse idea, leaving system to boot A: before C: (thus exposed to boot
:>sector virus risks).

In my opinion, picking up a boot sector virus that can wipe out your
data is a bad idea.  Leaving a system to boot A: before C: (the
default in CMOS) allows this to happen.  Relying on boot diskettes
requires A:,C: boot order and thus poses this risk.  

Plus, if you change the diskette, you get "Please insert disk with
Command.com..." whinging, etc.

:>>That puts you into real dos mode

:>So does Shudown, Restart in MS-DOS Mode ("Exit to DOS.pif") and a lot
:>more elegantly than faffing around with "boot disks".

Yep, that's also my opinion, based on the reasoning above.  Based on
the above information, YMMV, but I'd be interested to hear why.

:>>Format your Hardrive - and cleanse your Soul !

A joke, I take it?
Or are you really that indifferent to your data?   ;-)