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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 10:30:50 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
To: yeep <yeep AT xs4all DOT nl>
cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: running opendos with win 95
In-Reply-To: <199703271814.TAA00012@magigimmix.xs4all.nl>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970328103024.7284I-100000@capslock.com>
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On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, yeep wrote:

> > > That would explain why you can't get LFN while you boot MS-DOS only.
> > > If LFN is truly just a Win95 driver, than I think letting Win95 run of
> OD
> > > can't be that hard, becuase of LFN is done by Win95 itself, then why
> > > wouldn't other things be done by Win95 as well.
> > 
> > This is a very good point you've raised Yeep.  I guess now we
> > find out exactly how closely tied 95 is to MSDOS eh?  I still
> > look at W95/DOS7 as a DOS7/Win4.0 combo and not as M$ wants us to
> > believe.  If you look at the MBR of a drive with 95 on it, it
> > shows the text "MS-WIN 4.1" or something like that.  Hmmm....
> 
> Hah!
> Run MSD en look at your DOS version!

MSD?  I deleted MSD.  My DOS version is 6.22.

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