Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 10:53:03 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
To: yeep AT xs4all DOT nl
cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: running opendos with win 95
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On Thu, 27 Mar 1997 yeep AT xs4all DOT nl wrote:

> > > Not well.  Win95 is more closely "knit" with MSDOS 7.0 than was
> > > Windows 3.1 with earlier MSDOS versions.  I believe it is possible
> > > to dual boot them, but I think it is not possible (at the moment)
> > > to boot Win95 on top of OpenDOS.  I haven't set up dual booting
> > > for Windows 95 (I have for Linux) but I understand that Win95 "resists" it.
> > > Also, OpenDOS will not recognize or use long filenames.  Under OpenDOS,
> > > you will just see mangled directories and filename for anything longer
> > > than 8.3.
> > >
> > btw i've heared a rumor that long filename api is not part of DOS 7 but
> > part of "Windows" and does not appear until GUI is loaded.. Is that true
> > or not?
> 
> That would explain why you can't get LFN while you boot MS-DOS only.
> If LFN is truly just a Win95 driver, than I think letting Win95 run of OD
> can't be that hard, becuase of LFN is done by Win95 itself, then why
> wouldn't other things be done by Win95 as well.

This is a very good point you've raised Yeep.  I guess now we
find out exactly how closely tied 95 is to MSDOS eh?  I still
look at W95/DOS7 as a DOS7/Win4.0 combo and not as M$ wants us to
believe.  If you look at the MBR of a drive with 95 on it, it
shows the text "MS-WIN 4.1" or something like that.  Hmmm....

:o)


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