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From: "Patrick Moran" <pmoran22 AT yahoo DOT com>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: using DRDOS7.05 COMMAND.COM with WinMe
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 12:25:18 -0700
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Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

Instead of using a DOS window like it appears you did, make a DOS mode
icon and reboot into DRDOS 7.05. You can still dualboot using DRDOS
LOADER and choose to go into ME or DRDOS.

Pat


----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan S." <as173 AT cornell DOT edu>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: using DRDOS7.05 COMMAND.COM with WinMe


> Ok, since 4DOS manages some level of integration with WinMe, I read
the
> relevant 4DOS tech support page.  It says to make NO changes to
> CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT when using 4DOS.COM with WinMe ["WinMe will
> ignore/delete changes to CONFIG.SYS"] -- just to add a desktop
shortcut
> to 4DOS.COM.  This did NOT work for me with C:\DRDOS7\COMMAND.COM, but
> when I moved/renamed [thanks to Matthias Paul for this suggestion] to
> C:\DRDOSCMD.COM, I was able to launch a DR-DOS 7.05 'DOS box'....BUT
> ONLY ONCE!  [NOT repeatable...ARRRGHH!]
>
> The failure mode in all cases is an empty DOS box [or full screen]
with
> just a blinking cursor.  Renaming a second time [to C:\ODOSCMD.COM]
did
> not permit another 'one time' working DOS box.  The WinMe registry is
> clean.  I tried this only with the 7.05 COMMAND.COM [because it has
> integrated long file name processing].
>
> Ok, I give up.  My box of DR-DOS install disks can go back to my
bottom
> desk drawer for another year until Lineo releases another half baked
> revision of the kernel files [let's just all hope they remember to
test
> the 'RENAME filename' function before the next release!]
>
> Thanks for all the help and suggestions.  I really would like to use
> DR-DOS again -- especially as a replacement for the 'boot to real DOS'
> function missing from WinMe! -- but the "user testing" requirements
are
> just too high!
>
> Alan S.
> 2-2-2001
>
>
>
> Matthias Paul wrote:
> > So, what exactly goes wrong? Do you get an error message, or is the
> > system just hanging? Any startup message from COMMAND.COM? What
> > happens if you rename COMMAND.COM to say DRCMD.EXE or DRCMD.COM?
> > What happens if you use the DR-DOS 7.03 COMMAND.COM instead of
> > the 7.05 one? Does this happen on a "patched" ME, that is, with a
> > MS-DOS COMMAND.COM loaded (directly via CONFIG.SYS SHELL=) before
the
> > GUI starts up, or is this an unmodified configuration? One thing to
> > play with might be .PIF file settings (if they still exist in ME)...


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