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From: soren DOT andersen AT m6 DOT sprynet DOT com
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Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 04:14:27 +0000
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Subject: Re: install Win3.1 over Open DOS HELP
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On 22 Dec 97 at 13:48, in the matter of Re: install Win3.1 over Open 
DOS -  HELP, Reece Sellin wrote:

> Hello!
> 
>     If I recall correctly, you do not need HIMEM.SYS to install
>     Windows under
> OpenDOS; the driver EMM386.EXE under OpenDOS provides both support
> for XMS (Extended) and EMS (Expanded) memory.  In other versions of
> DOS, such as MS DOS, HIMEM.SYS provided XMS support while EMM386.EXE
> provided EMS support. Under OpenDOS, they are kind of "bundled
> together" into one driver.  

{snip}

Reece, thank you VERY much for your generous and detailed 
explanation. You were apparently quite correct; I followed your 
advice and instructions and booted clean with no drivers, installed 
Win3.1, and run it successfully on OpenDOS emm386 without himem.sys 
at all. I installed Internet Explorer 3.03 later, and got one sharing 
violation as the setup ran - had to run the install a second time -- 
but other than that i have had no problems. That was probably buggy 
MS installer code anyway :Q.

I re-installed OpenDOS over Win3.1 to get the OpenDOS support and 
configuration for Windows that I didn't have to begin with. Kind of 
a lot of work but that's how it goes. At least the OpenDOS 
installation is amazingly friendly and convenient. Caldera sure makes 
MS look bad.

Best,

    soren andersen