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From: "Jeff Berntsen" <jeffb AT world DOT std DOT com>
To: "opendos AT delorie DOT com" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:34:35 -0500
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Subject: Re: DOS and WIN/98
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You can easily get to a DOS window on ME:  It's been moved from the
programs menu to the accessories folder under the programs window. 
Some OEM systems seem to have eliminated even that but on any ME system
you can select the run option from the start menu and type in COMMAND
and you'll get a DOS window.   Windows 2000 _does_ have a command line
interpreter which is mostly compatible with DOS commands and batch
files but not with many DOS applications.  Under Windows 2000 it too
has been moved to the accessories folder and you can also start it by
going to run from the start menu and entering COMMAND as the program
you want to run.

Jeff Berntsen
jeffb AT world DOT std DOT com

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:21:39 -0700, Patrick Moran wrote:

>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
>well.
>
>I know that 2000 does not have ANY DOS capability.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bernie" <bernie AT mbox302 DOT swipnet DOT se>
>To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 11:48 PM
>Subject: Re: DOS and WIN/98
>
>
>> Patrick wrote:
>> >Sooner or later you will have to do this anyway, because they will
>> >probably update to ME or 2000 and neither of those have any DOS in
>them.
>> >MS completely stripped DOS out of these. SO you will have to have a
>> >separate DOS installed with those anyway.
>>
>> Ahem...
>> Windows NT 3.51, 4, 5 (aka. "Windows 2000") don't run on top of DOS.
>> Windows 95, OSR2, OSR2.5, 98, 98SE and ME (I don't know if there's a
>MESE
>> yet) run on top of DOS.
>>
>> So Microsoft never hid DOS in NT, they just didn't implement it
>together
>> with IBM in OS/2 (or NT if you prefer the Microsoft OS/2 version <G>).
>> But AFAIK they did there best to hide it in WinME.
>> file://Bernie
>
>
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