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To: CatLady who wrote (10947)	7/29/2000 3:20:27 PM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 110652

"CatLady, on Cable!" rock the web

To: CatLady who wrote (10947)	7/29/2000 3:53:51 PM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 110652

"The .dos files have something to do with booting into dos mode..." oooh, look what i found: "The important part, though, is to make sure autoexec.dos and config.dos specify your CD-ROM and mouse drivers, so that DOS can find them" zdtv.com also, more at this site, addressing this question: "What is the Autoexec.dos and config.dos file for? When restarting in Dos mode or botting to a previous version of Dos?" ume.med.ucalgary.ca it (autoexec.dos and config.dos) appears to be a win95 thing. and that sheds some light on me having these two files in my win98 c:\backup folder... because my other machine runs win95 and i do transfer some files between the two. i think i'd better go out and do some 3-D for awhile [ edit: did i say i was going out? <g3> the following is a preemo description of the two files.... "Installation of W95 rewrites the boot sector of the active partition so W95 gets control on startup -- it also renames DOS startup files: IO.SYS becomes IO.DOS and MSDOS.SYS becomes MSDOS.DOS. CONFIG.SYS becomes CONFIG.DOS and AUTOEXEC.BAT becomes AUTOEXEC.DOS. A new binary file IO.SYS becomes the boot file and the file MSDOS.SYS is rewritten as a hidden/system text file that can be edited to control W95 boot behaviour" ] mdwin.com :) mark