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From: eggbrains AT aol DOT com (Egg brains)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Need Old DOS Program to Run on WIN95
Date: 3 Oct 1997 21:51:38 GMT
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DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp

>All my machines have WIN95 on them. Some will run a DOS 5.0 application
>called GEOS, 
>some will now. The machines that run the old DOS program, all had MS-DOS on
>their 
>machine before WIN95 was loaded on top of it. The machines that will not run
>the old DOS 
>program never had DOS on their machine before.
>
>I did a mem /c to see what was loaded. I noticed on the machines that ran the
>old DOS 
>program, MS-DOS was loaded into memory. On machines that never had DOS on
>their system, 
>I just see SYSTEM loaded into memory.
>

I don't want to be negative, but this is a message board for DJGGP-specific
 questions, lots of the people here probably don't even use dos! (i do, but
 that's beside the point).  Please try a DOS message board.  Thanx...

Paul

BTW, for your question, win95 can and will (or should) run all dos programs (I
 am 99.98% sure of this, but don't blame be if i'm wrong).  In some cases, some
 program might need to be run in dos mode (not a dos-window).  Your problem
 could be from something else such as share.exe, ansi.sys etc... look at the
 documentation, they usually have trouble-shooting...

P.S. What is GEOS?

And, Windows95 Sucks :)

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