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From: "Glenn McCorkle" <glennmcc AT cisnet DOT com>
Organization: Arachne Fan Club
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 20:41:46 -0500
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Subject: Re: Advanced DOS for Beginners (was: Re: How to unsubscribe)
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On Sat, 8 Jul 2000 19:07:09 -0400 (EDT), Paul O Bartlett wrote:

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> On this list I read of boot sectors, dual booting, FAT32 versus
> FAT16, file systems, who or what can or cannot read what or whom, and
> various and assorted other arcana.  All of this means little to me.  It
> seems for someone like me, who wants to *use* a computer as a tool and
> not as an end in itself, and who does not have a lot of skill and
> background, that mucking about with various operating systems and
> whatnot simply seems to be a task beyond me, much as I dislike Windoozy
> and did like MS-DOS 5 up to its limitations.  I don't have anybody to
> come in to hold my hand, so to speak.

> Figurativly speaking, is there any hope for a klutz like me, or am
> I trapped in Windowdom?

 So, you'de like to run DOS???
No problem. :-)
You have W98 on that machine???
You *have* MSDOS v7.something on that machine.

When you see the massage "Starting Windows 98".... press the F8 key.
At this point, choose "Command prompt only"

That's all there is to it. (you're at the MSDOS command prompt)

Run any DOS program you'de like.

When you *do* want to go into W98 (why you'de want to is beyond my
comprehension but......), just type "win" and press enter.

Just like you used to do way back in the days of Win3.x :-)

Glenn McCorkle glennmcc AT cisnet DOT com North Jackson, Ohio, USA
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