Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 20:33:35 -0500 (EST) From: "Mike A. Harris" Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" To: Benjamin D Chambers cc: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Subject: Re: [opendos] Re: OpenDOS to be released next week! (fwd) In-Reply-To: <19970120.094830.4983.4.chambersb@juno.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Benjamin D Chambers wrote: > >Well, if OpenDOS EMM386 is better than QEMM then I'd either have to > >change my CONFIG.SYS (DOS 6.22 multiconfig) into irish stew, or else > >I'd have to be able to let OpenDOS use a different file such as > >CONFIG.OPD or something. If OpenDOS doesn't let me do that, then > >I'll... > >I'll..., I'll download the source code and change CONFIG.SYS to > >whatever I > >want!!!!!!!!!! OH YES, THIS WILL BE GOOD!!!!! > Why stop there? Just rewrite it to query the user for which config files > to use - or even better, which SYSTEM to load :) Yah, that could be nice, but, it could also be annoying too! Consider this: Reboot, LILO - type DOS, OpenDOS kernel loader menu - pick MSDOS 6.22, Multiconfig pick whatever. Yikes. But hey, I'm not complaining. The more configurable things are, the better! > >No problem. Any DOS program that screws up Windows '95 is merely > >getting > >revenge for all the times that it happens the other way around. > YES!!! THERE IS JUSTICE IN THE UNIVERSE!!!!! :) Perhaps we should write OpenDOS routines to detect Windows '95 and NOT run if it is detected. Hey, we could have it delete the registry, rename some DLL's and have other fun. That would be really fun! Any takers? > >Besides > >LFN support will be here before long. I don't use '95, but I would > >like to have LFN's in DOS because I'm a Linux nut now. > Who isn't? :) Willy G. :o) Mike A. Harris - Computer Consultant http://www3.sympatico.ca/mharris My dynamic address: http://www3.sympatico.ca/mharris/ip-address.html mailto:mharris AT sympatico DOT ca mailto:mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca HELP ME! Does anyone know how to get talk to work in Linux?