Couldn't you folks who want to discuss or vent about Windows
find a Windows mailing list or better yet,
--start one.
Can we just do Linux here?
Thanks
Eunice
Mark Weaver wrote:
>
> 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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> */
>
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<*REPLY SEPERATOR*>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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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 -
> >
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Eunice Thompson
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Cerritos Linux User Group
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