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- WinDos for Windows - For When You Really need DOS
- Copyright 1993 Bruce W. Nunnally, All rights Reserved.
- WinDos carries no warranty. Make no Claims.
- WinDos cannot be bundled with any other product without
- specific written permission from the author.
-
- Thank you for downloading WinDos. WinDos is a program
- that allows you to launch dos applications which do not
- run properly under Windows from Windows.
-
- The technique is simple. WinDos closes windows, runs
- the dos application, then restarts windows. The advantage
- is a stable, fast dos environment, at the price of the
- loss of multitasking capability.
-
- WinDos is ideal for playing games that need speed - you
- start the game just like any other dos icon, but windows
- is not running in the background as it is in a normal
- dos window, or fullscreen. So all your cpu time goes into
- the game, and not into waiting for a task-switch command.
-
- In order to use WinDos place the file windos.exe in your
- windows subdirectory, usually c:\windows. Create a batch
- file which starts your dos application and place it somewhere
- in the path. From Windows Program Manager, use
- File|New|Program Item to create an icon for the dos application.
- on commandline, type windos, then the batch file for the
- dos application as a parameter to windos, like this:
- commandline: windos mcgee.bat
- you can put the Name as the Name of the game, in this case,
- Mcgee.
-
- If you run windos with no parameter, it will open a dos
- shell. If you run the LandMark speedcom program in windos
- and in normal windows dos, you will see the difference.
-
- I may be contacted on CIS at Bruce Nunnally, 73043,3375.
- I monitor the FIDO net CD-ROM and Windows conferences.
-
- Windos is ShareWare. If you use Windos, please
- forward US$5 to:
- Bruce Nunnally
- 1304 Todd Drive
- Plano TX, 75023
- In check or money order.
- Continued use of a product without paying for it is theft.
- Purchase of shareware encourages the production of shareware.
-
- Thanks,
- Bruce
-