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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (5637)	1/28/1999 1:22:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

DOS "Commands" To see a DOS name right click on a folder or filename in Windows Explorer ( Win95, probably Win 98. don't know about NT) then click on properties. In the root directory of your Win98 drive there should be a file called autoexec.bat and another called config.sys. If they do not exist you can make them. The MS DOS mode restart from the shutdown menu will read these files, They are the configuration and start up files for DOS. You can use these files to install mouse drivers, CDs etc. I recall having to boot twice to have some things take affect. It may have been because I was editing an autoexec.dos file when I should have been edithing the autoexec.bat?? I believe you are in a DOS environment when you shutdown and restart in MS DOS mode. There is some Win95/98 hangover as when you type EXIT when in MS DOS mode the system will reboot to WIN95/98. This is probably some type of TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) application. I believe Drive Image execution from Win 98 is the equivalent (or near equivalent ) of a shut down and restart in MS DOS mode. The execution is not native Win95/98..it is merely accessible from Win95/98. The message I get when executing Drive Image from Win95 is to close all programs as I am leaving Win95 and entering DOS (or something to that effect). Just general rambling on my part. Zeuspaul

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (5637)	1/28/1999 3:12:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>>DOS "Commands" Time for "DOS for Dummies"? <g> That's a joke, sort of, but the point is a basic reference book would probably take out a lot of the frustrations, or at least give you something hefty to throw <gg>. AND as you can tell, a lot of that moldy old DOS stuff is still germane to and necessary for these highly sophisticated scrap piles we have our elbows inside all the time. I have no reccos on a book, though. I just use my old DOS manuals, which I wouldn't recommend to anyone I can think of except maybe Bill Gates, who should be forced ...