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: 17 Apr 2000 01:47:36 GMT
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In article <38FA6964 DOT 5909 AT earthlink DOT net>,
Rez  <rividh DOT minusthispart AT earthlink DOT net> wrote:
>> 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:
><snip>
>> Does this still work under ME?
>I dunno, but I can tell you it did NOT work with Win2k beta3/RC1.

Windows 2K is NT-based, it doesn't start up by running DOS.  Windows ME isn't,
and if it lets you make a boot disk which gets a DOS prompt, a DOS startup
menu should also work unless they deliberately disabled it.
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       Ken Arromdee / arromdee AT rahul DOT net / http://www.rahul.net/arromdee

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