Hi
"Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> SH> I try to optimize my CONFIG.SYS and my AUTOEXEC.BAT for use with
>> SH> DOS and WIN 95 ignores these files as if they weren't even
>> SH> there.
>> So you mean if you tell it to load smartdrv or some other driver, it
>> is NOT present when you reboot ??
>> I don't think that this is possible.
SH> It has been so long since I've played with the CONFIG.SYS and
SH> AUTOEXEC.BAT that I've forgotten exactly what kinds of things I tried
SH> to load, and in what sequence. All I remember is that it doesn't work
SH> like a normal operating system and it doesn't recognize commands that
SH> are clearly there and found in the specified path. WIN 95 is so
SH> screwed up that it doesn't even respond to a simple statement such as
SH> "path=c:\;c:\util". Any normal version of DOS would understand the
SH> statement and act accordingly.
DOS 7.0 recognizes every valid DOS command.
PS: this has to be set path=c:\
(set !)
Maybe we can help you, if you give an example of something that doesn't
work. (it's sure a problem at your end, because I have tried many, many
things and haven't encountered a single bug, dos 7 behaves exactly as
msdos 6.22)
SH> BTW, I see that you are using 4DOS. Many list members have posted
SH> messages about experiencing problems with 4DOS, especially with
SH> Arachne. Maybe you can help them.
Usually it was me having problems.
The solution posted here many times is, to simply delete all [xxx] values
from MIME.cfg
SH> Sam Heywood
CU, Ricsi
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