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- From: ADUNSMUI@TOROLAB6.VNET.IBM.COM (Al Dunsmuir)
- Message-ID: <19920729.133850.821@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 14:11:20 EDT
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Couple of OS/2 problems...
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- Organization: IBM Canada Laboratory Ltd, Toronto, CANADA
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- References: <1992Jul28.063753.2983@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <55314@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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- In <GHENNIGA.92Jul29111724@ampere.ampere> ghenniga@NMSU.Edu writes:
- >In an article jclei@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Jason Lei) writes:
- >>In article <1992Jul28.063753.2983@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> smsmith@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M Smith) writes:
- >
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- > Go to the icon for the full screen DOS session in which you run MSD
- >and open up it's settings notebook (click the second or middle mouse over the
- >DOS full screen icon, click on the arrow to the right of "Open" in the menu
- >and then choose "Settings"), go to the "Session" page and click on the "DOS
- >Settings" button. Next choose the "DOS_VERSION" setting and at the end of
- >the list type the following line:
- > MSD.EXE,4,01,255
- >
- >This means that OS/2 DOS emulation is to report to MSD.EXE that it is running
- >under DOS 4.01 and that OS/2 is to tell it this up to 255 times. Now click on
- >the "Save" button in the bottom left and close the notebook. Start your
- >DOS full screen session and see if MSD will run now. It has for me everytime!
- >
- >Gary Hennigan
- >(ghenniga@NMSU.Edu)
- >
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- The "255" actually means that OS/2 is to ALWAYS fake out the DOS version.
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