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- From: rcmerrit@apgea.army.mil (Robert C. Merritt <rcmerrit>)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: MSCDEX in OS/2
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.133005.15733@apgea.army.mil>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 13:30:05 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.195520.11213@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >In article <1993Jan7.154627.26421@apgea.army.mil> rcmerrit@apgea.army.mil (Robert C. Merritt <rcmerrit>) writes:
- >>Anyways, is there a version of mscdex.exe that works with os/2's verson of
- >>dos? I want to run my CD-rom from a dos window/or full screen but all it
- >>ever says is "incorrect dos version". I tried adding to my dos_version
- >>settings:
- >>mscdex.exe,5,00,255
- >>and when that didn't work I tried:
- >>mscdex.exe,4,01,255.
- >>now I can get it to load in a VDM with msdos 5.00 but since I can't load it
- >>high, there isn't room enough to run t of the programs I have for the bleedin
- >>thing!
- >
- >Yes you can, if you use the memory management files provided in
- >\OS2\MDOS (not the ones provided with MS-DOS 5.00). See Appendix E of
- >your Installation Guide and/or the online Command Reference under
- >VMDISK for further instructions.
- >
- >--
- >Timothy F. Sipples | Read the OS/2 FAQ List 2.0h, available from
- >sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/info
- >Dept. of Econ., Univ. | /faq, or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP")
- >of Chicago, 60637 | [Read the List, THEN post to ONE OS/2 newsgroup.]
-
-
- I finally figured that out myself last night. Although It was a pure guess.
- Thanks for giving my an answer though!
-
- ok, now the strange part. I loaded everything high, no problem, I go to my
- CD rom to start playing wing commander 2. but guess what, os/2 write protects
- my C drive! (the game needs to store configuration information on the hard
- disk). ok, no problem, I just added fsfilter to my config.sys. problem solved,
- right? well I can write to C drive now BUT when I load msxdex high it says
- pack file corrupted! ok, I'm back to the beginning, I have to load it low.
- That gives me only 560K free and I need 600! Any suggestion, anyone?
- Rob Merritt
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