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Re: Win95 and games: good news...

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From: sas... Bill Arnette
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 00:00
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ad...@phoenix.princeton.edu (Adam J. Thornton) writes:

>In article <saswta.7...@sas.com>, Bill Arnette <sas...@unx.sas.com> wrote:

>>It is true that you cannot specify FILE= and BUFFERS= or any other
>>options that you would specify in a CONFIG.SYS file.  But you can specify a
>>.BAT file to be run before your application much as an AUTOEXEC.BAT file
>>might be run.

>So you can't load device drivers on a per-DOS-session basis?  Or does Win95
>have a "Load these drivers" somewhere in the app's settings?

I beleive that is true for DOS VMs.  You can however specify them if you use
MS-DOS mode.  But also remember that Win95 supports VxDs so you shouldn't
have to load any new drivers in a DOS VM.

>Adam
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From: sas...@unx.sas.com (Bill Arnette)
Subject: Re: Win95 and games: good news...
Date: 1995/04/24
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