Author: Mike S.
Date: 11:05:39 03/02/00
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On March 02, 2000 at 08:28:19, Gerald Grimsley wrote: >Hello, >I seem to always have some problems when I try to run my DOS chess programs >(...) >At present I run from the DOS prompt icon. Thanks in advance It's interesting that Win98 still starts from a DOS environment; it's just hidden from the user in the default settings. If you are familiar with the editing of config.sys and autoexec.bat, you can still build a DOS start menu (like in DOS 6.1, but now it's called Windows 98 Start Menu just like the first boot menu. There are two of them. It's a litte complicated...), when you have BootGUI=0 in your msdos.sys. But, different from then, Win98 loads some drivers like himem.sys which cannot be supressed by a normal boot process. But they are *not* loaded if you press SHIFT-F5 in a DOS start menu. Btw., if you don't want to change something in the configuration files on your C: drive, you can make a *boot disk* for your DOS programs (there's an option for this in the system configuration / software options). From my msdos.sys for example: [Paths] WinDir=C:\WINDOWS WinBootDir=C:\WINDOWS HostWinBootDrv=C [Options] BootMulti=1 BootGUI=0 BootKeys=1 BootMenu=1 BootMenuDefault=1 BootMenuDelay=2 BootMulti=1 DblSpace=0 DrvSpace=0 LoadTop=1 Logo=0 ;DoubleBuffer=1 AutoScan=1 WinVer=4.10.2222 ; With this, you come to the DOS prompt on startup (without having to do this MSDOS-Mode nonsense in the Win98 logoff - you would always have to start windows to tell it that you don't want it to start this time...). Edit the config.sys and autoexec.bat on the boot disk the way it suits you best (mouse driver etc.). To start Windows 98, you would have to type "win" like in the old Win3.x ages. Regards, M.Scheidl
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