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Article #2626Re: Win95 and games: good news...
From: khc... Oliver Chung
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 00:00
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In <saswta.7...@sas.com>, sas...@unx.sas.com (Bill Arnette) writes: >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. As I understand, MS-DOS mode is the same as having batch files in DOS that copies the proper autoexec.bat and config.sys and reboot the machine. *No rebooting* is what people wants. Can you elaborate about how VxD has to do with DOS drivers? --- Oliver Chung <khc...@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> __ __ _ +Department of Physics, The Ohio State University+ | |(__' /`_) +----------> My opinions are my own <------------+ |__|.__)/ /__
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From: khc...@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Oliver Chung) Subject: Re: Win95 and games: good news... Date: 1995/04/25 Message-ID: <3nhg7a$g0h@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> X-Deja-AN: 101468205 references: <3mtquj$hq2@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> <3n26a6$mfa@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <Pine.CVX.3.91.950419092911.29195F-100000@gibbs.oit. <saswta.798476799@sas.com> <3nb7ra$68k@cnn.Princeton.EDU> <saswta.798696742@sas.com> organization: The Ohio State University reply-to: khc...@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Oliver Chung) 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