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From: "Vidmantas Balciunas" <vibal AT lrtc DOT lt>
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Subject: Re: DOS and WIN/98
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>I may be mistaken, but as I recall when I had ME on this system for a
>short time, there was no COMMAND directory and I don't believe there is
>a COMMAND.COM with ME. According to what people have said in usenet, ME
>dos not have any DOS Mode and I don't recall a any DOS window being
>included with it. Maybe it's there somepalce and they just hid it real

Yes, you are mistaken. There is COMMAND.COM in WinME, and there
is DOS version: MS-DOS 8.0.
Truth is that you can't boot to plain DOS in WinME from hard disk, but only
using floppy or CD. Why - I don't know. There is no exit to plain DOS also.

And WinME DOS has "DOS mode", but only if you boot from floppy or CD,
as I said before.

"DOS in window" is present in all Windows'es. Not only in Win95/98/98SE/ME,
but also in WinNT / 2000. Only NT / 2000 DOS'es has much more restrictions on
direct accessing PC hardware (problems with DOS graphic mode software, 
sound, etc.)

Vidas