From: Jeffrey Furlong <jfurlong AT telephone-headset DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Need Old DOS Program to Run on WIN95
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 12:43:47 -0500
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Egg brains wrote:

> 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...

> 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?

BTW. Why have this newsgroup? Shouldn't everybody just read their 
documentation?

Also: GEOS is another operating system.

Also: I posted to this newsgroup because I earlier had done a Deju search
for newsgroups that had previously posted articles relevant to my 
situation. I am obviously *way over your head here......