Date:	Thu, 17 Apr 1997 20:23:48 +1200
From:	physmsa AT cantua DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz (Mr M S Aitchison)
Subject:	Re: Question regarding Opendos and Win#95
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Message-id:	<199704170823.UAA08083@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>

Remember that OpenDOS looks first for a file DCONFIG.SYS, and
only if it doesn't exist: CONFIG.SYS, so you can have OPenDOS
and Win95 using different config files in the same partition.

Command interpreters are a bit more of a problem (setting
SETVER command.com 7.00 allows me to run the Win95 command.com
after booting up with the opendos one, but not make it the
master one in a SHELL line of config.sys).  You can use 4dos
under both systems of course.

Choosing which operating system to boot is something I'm still
working on.  You can have alternative boot sectors that go for
either the IBM*.COM files or the IO.SYS etc that MSDOS/Win95 uses.
I have had a system where a second primary partition worked, but
this was messy.  The OS/2 boot manager has a method of hiding a
second C: drive, which might be useful (except you waste space)

More later,
Mark
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