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Subject: Re: Socrates 3.0 and NT - incompatible ?

Author: Don Dailey

Date: 21:41:20 02/25/99

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On February 25, 1999 at 19:57:36, Laurence Chen wrote:

>On February 25, 1999 at 10:09:24, Tim OLena wrote:
>
>>I managed to get Socrates to run on my new 95 machine by creating a boot disk,
>>and running the PC from that.
>>
>>This same disk will not get my NT system to handle Socrates. The SYS command
>>does not seem to be present in my NT system. I assume there is a way to create a
>>boot disk  with an NT machine ?
>Not...!!! The DOS in the NT is not the same DOS as found in Windows 95/98..
>You cannot create a start up disk to boot NT.....

I keep seeing this issue come up and I have to apologize for not
being able to help out.   I don't understand the issues very well,
and I don't have any of the tools I used  when I wrote this program.
Also I no longer use any of the microsoft OS's and have never used
Windows so I'm pretty helpless here.   But I hope you are able to solve
this problem.   The only thing I can think of that may be an issue
is the "DOS extender" that I believe Socrates required.  It was
a watcom based DOS extender and I'll bet it somehow is broken with
Windows NT or incompatible in some way.


- Don



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