At 02/14/04, you wrote:
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>There are 4 messages totalling 137 lines in this issue.
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>Topics of the day:
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> 1. Dos Box without extra shell? (4)
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>Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:26:46 -0800
>From: howard schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Dos Box without extra shell?
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>Forgive the non-Linux question - but:
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>At least windows 9x appears to start an initial command.com dos shell
>and read config.sys etc. before it continues to load windows.
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>Ordinarily, windows runs a second copy of command.com to run a dos
>program or give you a does window. Is there some way to run a dos
>program or create a dos command line, using only the original copy of
>command.com in memory, thus saving some memory?
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>I guess I am asking for win 9x, why must one temporarily switch from
>the windows to a dos shell by running a dos shell within the windows
>shell? Conceptually, perhaps the answer is that one would need to
>`temporarily' unload all the windows stuff in memory, or swap it to
>disk, in order to go back a step to the original command.com that was
>loaded first.
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Try TweakUI for whichever Win9X you are running...if using 95, don't use
TweakUI for Win98, etc. By the way, WinMe does the same.
Alternatively, if you are not totally inept at editing "system" files, you
can edit the file MSDOS.SYS on a Win9X machine. Remember,
you'll have to remove the hidden, read-only and system attributes
before you can edit the file...good idea to "copy" to a backup as well.
When you've got the attributes set to allow editing, need to make sure
the line that reads
BOOTGUI=0 (that's a ZERO, not letter OH)
is set to
BOOTGUI=1
(I think that's right)
And, while you are at it, get the old style Boot Menu like this:
BOOTMENU=1
Note that you may have to ADD the bootmenu line!
Anyway, the total file size should remain the same...put this in
front of the "filler" stuff MS put in there.
C U L8R!
Wiz <{;-)
Glenn Gilbreath, Jr.
Wizard57M
http://www.geocities.com/wizard57m/index.html
