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Re: Win95 and games: good news...

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From: khc... Oliver Chung
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?

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Oliver Chung
<khc...@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu>                 __  __    _
+Department of Physics, The Ohio State University+  |  |(__' /`_)
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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>
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