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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (5747)	1/31/1999 3:08:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Clarence, you never are going to be able to exit from MSDOS when you boot from the floppy. What would you be exiting to? When you boot from the hard disk, DOS is a step along the road to booting WIN98. When you exit command.com (which is what EXIT does, it doesn't exit from DOS), DOS does SOMETHING. In the win98 environment, it can continue with booting Win98. When you've booted from the floppy it doesn't have that option -- doesn't know beans about Win98 -- so it runs command.com again and you get another C prompt. There's no technical reason that you couldn't boot DOS from the floppy then continue booting from the hard disk. That would give users just too damn much flexibility to suite Mr. Gates is my guess. I can just picture his thought processes: Can't have those users doing what they WANT. Dangerous. Might get the idea they're important or something. Gotta make 'em do what WE want ...