it is...but often you'll find that all this venting is good theropy.
--
Mark
/ * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat
* in order to get the rats up from below decks
* so they can be kicked over the side and drowned!
*
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On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 Abraham Pinzur had this to say!
>
> > Technically, WinME is Win98 without any trace of DOS under the
> > covers. You
> > won't find autoexec.bat. config.sys, or any of those files on a
> > system with
> > WinME preinstalled.
>
> *Technically*, best I can tell, WinME's relationship to DOS is no different
> from Win95 or Win98. Take it from a guy who's wasted a lot more time
> exploring those relationships than I want to think about...
>
> Basically Win9x's autoexec.bat/config.sys only affected DOS programs anyway.
> MS chose to leave them out in the newest iteration, assuming (fairly
> reasonably, actually) that nobody buying a new WinME computer would ever
> even think of running a DOS program.
>
> However, the dirty little secret is that if you ever have to boot off of
> WinME's rescue floppy, you're right back at the DOS prompt!
>
> BTW, I subscribed to this list under the impression that it was devoted to
> an alternative OS... =)
>
> - Av -
>
