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Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 18:04:31
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From: Charles Dye <raster AT highfiber DOT com>
Subject: Re: Using Loader with DRDOS and WIN95
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At 06:28 PM 1/23/00 -0800, you wrote:
>What we are dealing with here is the compatibility of DRDOS with a
>WIN95 operating system on the same computer.  How compatible is DRDOS
>with 32bit API and does it work in a Long Filename environment.

Irrelevant, because when you are running DR-DOS, you are running the
DR-DOS API -- not the API that Windows 95 would provide if it were
running.  More likely, the problem is simply that the boot partition
is something that LOADER doesn't understand:  FAT32, or one of the new
extended-INT-13 partition types.

I'm dual-booting Windows 95 OSR2 and DR-DOS 7.03 on my computer at
work.  I had to repartition in order to get LOADER to work correctly,
but now I can run either operating system.  No trouble so far.  DR-DOS
can't see my second hard drive (FAT32) but that's the way I planned it.

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