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Article #2829Re: MS-DOS v5.0 Release Date 11th June
From: Behram Parekh
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1991 20:45
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1991 20:45
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In article <3259@sparko.gwu.edu> timur@seas.gwu.edu (The Time Traveler) writes:
>In article <gurganus.675797385@stable.ecn.purdue.edu> gurganus@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (James P Gurganus) writes:
>>riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) writes:
>>I saw someone using a beta version of Ms Dos 5.0. They said you needed
>>some extra file in your root directory to run Windows 3.0. Does anyone
>>know what this file does or if its really needed?
>
>That is correct. The file is called something like WINA20.386. I
>don't know what it does, and I haven't tried deleting it either.
You don't have to keep the file in your root directory. You can put
it in the DOS directory as long as you include a /w switch under
the enviroment variable "switches". Not using windows, I have no
idea what it does or whether it works from the DOS directory
with the /w switch...
--
Behram Parekh bparekh@ics.uci.edu
Disclaimer: UCI ICS has no idea what I'm talking about, but then
neither do I.
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