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To: wily who wrote (8248)7/20/1999 12:59:00 PM
From: Spots  Read Replies (1) of 14778
 
Sure you can. Pifs work exactly the same in Win 95, 98, and
NT (and not all that different in Win 3.1 for that matter).
Just play with them a bit. When you run a DOS program,
Windows sets up a virtual machine for it to run in using
the environment specification in the pif.

Then realize that when you log off and reboot to the
win 95/98 DOS prompt, you're just exiting from Windows to
DOS, exactly like back in the Win 3.1 days. So you see
the DOS command prompt. This DOS is running in the
real machine, not a Windows virtual machine mock-up,
so it can poke the real hardware pretty hard.

That's all there is to it.
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