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- From: bauwens@acs.ucalgary.ca (Luc Bauwens)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: MSD under OS/2 (Was Re: Couple of OS/2 problems...)
- Message-ID: <92Jul30.053631.25074@acs.ucalgary.ca>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 05:36:31 GMT
- References: <1992Jul28.063753.2983@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <55314@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <GHENNIGA.92Jul29111724@ampere.ampere>
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- In article <GHENNIGA.92Jul29111724@ampere.ampere> ghenniga@NMSU.Edu writes:
- >
- >In an article jclei@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Jason Lei) writes:
- >
- >I have run MSD succesfully on both HPFS and FAT file systems under OS/2. Did
- >you set the DOS session you tried to run MSD in that it was to report to
- >MSD.EXE that it was version 4.01 of DOS?
- > 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!
-
- Interestingly, I found that if I don't mess with the DOS Version, MSD
- does not work, but if I go and set the DOS Version as 5.0 (!!!), then
- it does work.
-
- There are (at least) two versions of MSD, 1.10 and 2.00. The first one
- reports the OS as DOS 5. The other correctly identifies it as OS/2 2.0.
- The first one seems to choke for quite a while on my 360 k 5.25in B drive;
- the other doesn't. (BTW, PCtools 7.1's SI does the same thing; and
- reports the OS as DOS 20.0).
-
- Luc B
-