A while ago a friend gave me a brand spanking new/used beginning Pentium running at a fast 1Mhz (I think PCs are now running at 2Ghz), to replace my beloved old 486. This Pentium did not work, but I recovered the partition with a few dos tools, and discovered a working copy of Windows 95. After that I wondered why my interest in puttering on my survpc dropped. It became clear the winblows experience was shutting down another minor enjoyment in my life.
Well I only use winblows for looking at websites that are undecipherable without a browser that understands Java, javascript, frames, shows pictures that contain the text, etc. etc. However, at this point windows 95 can probably be considered survpc software. And win 9x still gives one a decent change to runs some dos things (of course there is dosemu etc. etc.). I became interested in seeing how much dos I could make my win 95 give to me, so I could still run the dos CLI, and pop up to win for the occasional browse. I took a while to learn how to make my favorite dos directory changer (ACD), pop me up a chosen window (using the start command). I found some small (!) windows programs written in assembler, and became interested in making dos programs do the equivalent windows things (e.g., find a file). Generally this means using a `dos box', since it takes too long to go from so called dos (real) mode up to windows. Any favorite tips about maximizing the functionality of dos boxes, intermixing dos and windows programs ? To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
