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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Couple of OS/2 problems...
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.170728.17223@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 17:07:28 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:
- >
- >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!
-
- Gee, that's a lot easier than using my DOS 5.00 image file! I hadn't
- realized that this would work. Silly me...
-
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