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Re: Win95 and games: good news...

#2494
From: Matt.... Matt McLeod
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 00:00
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In article <3nc32q$j...@bubba.ucc.okstate.edu>,
ro...@wentz1.reslife.okstate.edu (root) wrote:
> In article <Pine.CVX.3.91.95042...@gibbs.oit.unc.edu>, 
> jma...@gibbs.oit.unc.edu says...
> >
> >On 19 Apr 1995, Jeffrey Lee Woodall wrote:
> >
> 
> >As I pointed out in my private email, you have obviously made a mistake.  
> >I copied the entire post pointing out the OBVIOUS places where I was 
> >asking questions (I remeber about 6 question marks in my post, which I 
> >won't repost here to save bandwidth).  Either you have choosen to ignore 
> >this fact, or our messages have again crossed.  I fully admit to not 
> >knowing much about Win95, and I was asking questions.  I have not changed 
> >my tune.
> 
> Rude?  WTF, you asked a really, really dumb question on the usenet, and you 
> got flamed for it.  Who honestly gives a damn whether the "files=" can be 
> specified for each DOS session, and if so what relevence does it have to the 
> gaming groups?  NONE.  Dumb, dumb dumb dumb.  Then, you insist on continuing 
> the stupidity by posting as though you were some righteous avatar, when in 
> fact you are a schmuck who posted an irrelevent (who cares about a handfull 
> of bytes that the "files=" might take up?) question to the incorrect 
> newsgroups.

A *dumb* question?  When I read it, I thought it was a pretty good
question.  Why would a gamer care?  Perhaps because some games require
higher files= settings than others, and when you're scrounging for extra
memory having a ludicrously high files= setting is a problem.

At any rate, files= is just an example.  You can change *any* DOS
setting on a session-by-session basis under OS/2.  You may well be able
to do that under NT too (don't use it so I don't know).  Win95 doesn't
do that, unless you use "MS-DOS mode", and even then you effectively
have to write your own CONFIG.SYS file for each session.

Matt

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From: Matt....@scorch.hna.com.au (Matt McLeod)
Subject: Re: Win95 and games: good news...
Date: 1995/04/27
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