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Article #2612Re: Win95 and games: good news...
From: jlwo... Jeffrey Lee Woodall
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 00:00
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 00:00
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root (ro...@wentz1.reslife.okstate.edu) wrote: : >Perhaps you can answer a question for me. As I understand it, the : >settings you refer to in Win95 apply system-wide, is that the case? To : >me, that seems like an unacceptable limitation. With OS/2, I can : >tailor the settings for each program individually. : > : >Now, let's say that I want to run a DOS game that likes FILES=50. In : >OS/2, I simply change the game's settings to boost the files for that : >session -- then, whenever I run the game, it uses FILES=50 and then drops : >back to my system default (FILES=20) when I exit the game. Why should I : >penalize all my other tasks just for the sake of that one program by : >increasing my system-wide FILES statement? How does Win95 handle this : >example? From what I understand, it would require that I use FILES=50 : >system-wide or reboot into another configuration -- is that correct? If : >so, it doesn't seem like much of an improvement over what many people : >currently do in DOS. : Nope sorry wrong. Quit wasting bandwith with something you admit to knowing : absolutely nothing about. No shit, this idiot needs to get lost. At least most OS/2 users are computer literate. This guy has NO clue. Jeff
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From: jlwo...@unity.ncsu.edu (Jeffrey Lee Woodall) Subject: Re: Win95 and games: good news... Date: 1995/04/19 Message-ID: <3n26a6$mfa@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> X-Deja-AN: 101089409 references: <3mtquj$hq2@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> <D77pB0.8BD@caprica.com> <Pine.CVX.3.91.950418115058.20616E-100000@gibbs.oit.unc.edu> <3n0rvg$13vn@bubba.ucc.okstate.edu> followup-to: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc,comp.os.os2.games organization: North Carolina State University newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc,comp.os.os2.games MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit