From: arromdee AT rahul DOT net (Ken Arromdee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: c|net: Microsoft has officially killed MS-DOS.
Date: 16 Apr 2000 18:52:03 GMT
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In article <ocnjfso7d4jlga9s95quplneath45djibk AT 4ax DOT com>,
Damian Yerrick  <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p> wrote:
>>You can always use a DOS startup menu, unless they took out the
>>ability to do that.
>If you set BootMenu=1 in msdos.sys, it leaves off options 5 and 6
>(command prompt and safe mode command prompt).

Not that kind of DOS startup menu.

Under Windows 95, if you set BootGUI=0, you start up in DOS but can type "win"
to start Windows.  You can then put something in your config.sys and
autoexec.bat like this:

CONFIG.SYS:
    [menu]
    menuitem=win,Windows 95
    menuitem=dos,MS-DOS

AUTOEXEC.BAT:
    :win
    win
    goto end;

    :dos
    rem (Insert all your DOS initialization stuff here)

    :end

and when you boot your machine it will give you a menu letting you pick
between Windows and DOS 7.  Whenever I need to run a DOS game, this is what I
use.  It's a lot more convenient than a boot disk, it allows several different
menu options for different DOS configurations, and it saves the headache from
having to figure out whether a problem happened just because Windows' DOS
mode isn't perfect.

Does this still work under ME?
-- 
       Ken Arromdee / arromdee AT rahul DOT net / http://www.rahul.net/arromdee

      "Eventually all companies are replaced."  --Bill Gates, October 1999