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Re: MSCDEX & Win95
On 16 May 96 at 9:14, Andy Ellsworth wrote:
>To answer your question, Cliff, yes...Win95 DOES come with MSCDEX. It
>has to, if anyone wants to have CD support in "MSDOS mode". However,
>I've heard reports (as I'm sure you have) of people having problems with
>the Win95 version of MSCDEX (3.something, I think) under executor; these
>same problems disappear with the older, DOS 6.x version of MSCDEX (2.25,
>if memory serves me).
I think there's a slight confusion here.
The genuine MSCDEX.EXE that comes with Win95 to support MS-DOS mode (and
CD-ROMS that don't have 32-bit drivers) is version 2.25 and works with
Executor (at least it does on my work machine). The 32-bit CDFS,
however, which pretends to be MSCDEX (and doesn't work with Executor in
general), claims to be MSCDEX version 2.95. The latest MSCDEX that
shipped with any version of DOS 6.x, AFAIK, was 2.23 (no, I don't know
what's the difference between 2.23 and 2.25, apart from 0.02 :-) ).
Hope this clarifies matters somewhat.