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To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject: [opendos] Re: OpenDOS to be released next week! (fwd)
Message-ID: <19970120.094830.4983.4.chambersb@juno.com>
References: <Pine DOT LNX DOT 3 DOT 93 DOT 970120065536 DOT 8040B-100000 AT capslock DOT com>
From: chambersb AT juno DOT com (Benjamin D Chambers)
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 12:49:21 EST
Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net

On Mon, 20 Jan 1997 07:07:58 -0500 (EST) root <root AT capslock DOT com> writes:
>On Sun, 19 Jan 1997, Gene Buckle wrote:
>Well, if OpenDOS EMM386 is better than QEMM then I'd either have to
>change my CONFIG.SYS (DOS 6.22 multiconfig) into irish stew, or else
>I'd have to be able to let OpenDOS use a different file such as
>CONFIG.OPD or something.  If OpenDOS doesn't let me do that, then 
>I'll...
>I'll..., I'll download the source code and change CONFIG.SYS to 
>whatever I
>want!!!!!!!!!!  OH YES, THIS WILL BE GOOD!!!!!
Why stop there?  Just rewrite it to query the user for which config files
to use - or even better, which SYSTEM to load :)

>No problem.  Any DOS program that screws up Windows '95 is merely 
>getting
>revenge for all the times that it happens the other way around.  
YES!!! THERE IS JUSTICE IN THE UNIVERSE!!!!! :)

>Besides
>LFN support will be here before long. I don't use '95, but I would 
>like to
>have LFN's in DOS because I'm a Linux nut now.
Who isn't? :)

...Chambers

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