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- From: djs6015@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Don Smith)
- Subject: Re: Whats needed to run E.EXE?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.002858.1197@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
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- References: <19AUG199208472481@cl2.cl.uh.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 00:28:58 GMT
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- In article <19AUG199208472481@cl2.cl.uh.edu> CSCI11BA@cl.uh.edu writes:
- :Greetings,
- :
- :I just made myself a bootable floppy with MAKEBOOT.CMD, and now I am
- :trying to figure out how to invoke the system editor (E.EXE)...
- :with no luck. It seems the more DLL's I point to in config.sys, the
- :more trouble I am getting myself into. Id like to be able to put
- :E.EXE on a floppy, and run it from there, just in case the HD crashes, etc.
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- I think that you should get yourself another editor, perhaps text based.
- Remember that the system editor (E.EXE) is a PM application, and that
- you only use the CMD.EXE shell when booting from a floppy disk.
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- | Don Smith (yahweh) | Its a Satanic drug thing.... |
- |djs6015@ultb.isc.rit.edu | ....you wouldn't understand. |
- |djs6015@ritvax.isc.rit.edu | |
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