Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 12:41:57 +1000 (EST) From: DONALD PEDDER To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: protecting DR-DOS from Windows In-Reply-To: <200004292206.AAA18694@smtp.hccnet.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk Thank you all for your responses - there's quite a bit of information there. The dir wasn't created from USING the recycle bin,as I wouldn't have used it on that partition. I did notice the same time on the dir on different disks and,as I think back,I remember I DID do a re-install of Win98 at about that time (I was running Win95 and 98lite,and had a program giving me trouble in both,so I went back to the proper Win98. Alas,it still doesn't work - just a crappy program). As for attrib,it didn't recognise that the directory was there. "dir /a" was what revealed it's presence (I don't remember what initially prompted me to do this,but I remember SOMETHING alerted me to the fact that something fishy was going on),and I could "cd" into it,but no other commands worked on that dir. Since it seems to have been created with the install,I guess what I need to do is put the DR-DOS partitions in AFTER I have done all my Windows installing (I want to put 98lite in again,but run it in tandem with Win98 for a while,and see the differences). > BTW, I'm only experienced /w DR-DOS 7.03, but I guess it'll be the same > (or worse) in older versions. I originally had 6.0. I had to abandon that when there was some software I wanted to run which was only available for Win95 or Mac (which also meant I had to "upgrade" from 3.11 to 95). After I found out about the "loader" command,I got 7.03 (but was disappointed that I couldn't use "diskopt" or "delwatch" on the disk). Now that I have a NEW computer,I have enough resources to run multiple partitions (but I'd still prefer a DR-DOS that can cope with long-filenames,and FAT32). Speaking of 7.03,anyone know how to kill the cruiser in stage 4 of Netwars? :-) I've tried guns and missiles to no avail - I guess you have to hit a certain SPOT (or a certain number of times). And has anyone used a joystick with 7.03? It doesn't seem to come with any joystick drivers (can't find anything in dosbook). regards, DONALD - Left-Brain Extraordinaire,Right-Brain in Rehab. E-mail - donaldp AT au DOT mensa DOT org BIG DON's Home-page - http://jedi.apana.org.au/~jims_son (Pedder Passer(Quarterback) Rating,Kirlian photo's,the best of The Beast) "What I always wanted is to be accepted,not understood" - MAN RAY