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Message-Id: | <199702070033.BAA13726@math.amu.edu.pl> |
Comments: | Authenticated sender is <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl> |
From: | "Mark Habersack" <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl> |
Organization: | What? (Poznan, Poland) |
To: | mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca |
Date: | Fri, 7 Feb 1997 01:32:56 +0100 |
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Subject: | RE: [opendos] First impressions, Win95+GRUB (fwd) |
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CC: | Gene Buckle <geneb AT web DOT wa DOT net>, |
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Once upon a time (on 5 Feb 97 at 20:47) mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on. said: > > Ah! Didn't know that - that's the solution I was looking for! Thanks, so > > far I used the autocon package (from simtel in msdos/bootutl) > > THANK GOD FOR THAT ONE!!!! I'll have to try it out ASAP!! It's really good. > > Also you can freely use the SELECT statement in that file - neat! But ^^^^^^should be SWITCH ;-) > > And you can share the autoexec.bat between M$-DOG and OpenDOS by simply > > setting CONFIG in DCONFIG.SYS to the current configuration name, just as > > M$-DOG does in behind the scenes. Or even do 'goto %OS%' - if there's no > > OS set, it will do nothing and process the M$-DOG part, if OS is set - you > > move to the OD part. Neat(2)! > > Why share AUTOEXEC.BAT's when you can specify the batch file to I'm sometimes lazy ;-)) > run as a command line parameter to OpenDOS's COMMAND.COM? 4DOS > also allows you to specify the PATH\FILENAME for an alternate > batch file to run as well. This way you can have separate > AUTOEXEC.BAT's AND CONFIG.SYS's. 4DOS is quite a different piece of cake - it is *THE* shell!! With 4DOS you don't need autoexec at all, just 4START.BTM > I can't get the *alleged* 640k either. *YET*. How does one load > stuff *ABOVE* the 1M point anyway? It's possible thanks to DPMS. The specification allows device drivers to run from within the XMS memory without leaving PM at any time. I think it should be the future of OpenDOS drivers. ----------------------------------------------------- So I talked about conscience and I talked about pain, And he looked out of window and it started to rain I thought maybe I've already gone crazy... ---- Visit http://ananke.amu.edu.pl/~grendel
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