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John Michael Martz (jma...@gibbs.oit.unc.edu) wrote:
: I'm cross-posting this message into comp.os.os2.games, because OS/2 is 
: beginning to get bad-mouthed in this thread (not by James, below, so 
: don't berate him), and I thought it reasonable to try to achieve some 
: balance here.

Are you sure you want to do that?  They may flame you for making them 
look like idiots.  (see uneducated remarks about Win95 below).  Then 
again. what should be expect from a UNC psych major?  (not much)


: On Tue, 18 Apr 1995, James Lummel wrote:

: > To handle the problem of DOS games with Windows '95, I have my regular
: > multi-boot config.sys and a C:\WIN.BAT file that checks the configuration
: > that was chosen at start-up.  If it's any configuration but the Windows
: > one, to drops me to DOS (Yes, Win '95 runs on TOP of DOS - still!!).  I 

: 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. 

: JOHN

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