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Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 00:56:45 -0500
From: "Glenn E. Davis" <gedavis AT eos DOT ncsu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: DOS4GW conflict solved yet???
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Dean Dancey wrote:
> 
> I have been following and testing OPENDOS from the beginning.  The
> many times that I have installed and checked it out did impress me, but
> there were still too many conflicts for some basic standard games for my
> liking.  I found that any game that used the DOS4GW.EXE memory expander
> (that's what I am told that it does) just crapped out under OPENDOS. I
> did read about a few patches, but they were almost as helpful as using a
> boot disk.  And, NO, I do not now, nor ever intend to run Win95, or NT
> on my computer. I was wondering if and when Caldera does come up with a
> concrete and solid solution to this and other bugs, I will gladly move
> >from MS-sloth. <BG> -Dean Dancey

Did you look at Caldera's web page for suggestions on settings for
running software (mainly games) with DOS extenders? I found that OD was
rock solid with these setting except with one game and I haven't been
able to get that game to work with PC-DOS nor MS-DOS correctly. 

Glenn Davis
gedavis AT eos DOT ncsu DOT edu