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Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!

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From: M R
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 1995 00:00
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           a...@ix.netcom.com "Alexander O. Norris " writes:

> a friend
> installe a recent build on a clean HD, no dos installed.  however,
> under close inspection, parts of dos, certain files like doskey, etc.,
> were installed under /windows/command
>  however, you really don't need dos 6.22 after you have installed
> win95.
> 

It has doskey etc in the Command dir so that if you ran DOS in a window
you can still load doskey.  What's wrong with that? If you have no need
for DOS and Win95 supports your hardware (most is) you can delete your 
autoexec.bat and config.sys etc and do away with DOS.


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