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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: HELP: How to lie to MSCDEX.EXE
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.014031.16942@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Keywords: CD-ROM, MSCDEX, DOS_VERSION
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <6194@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 01:40:31 GMT
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- In article <6194@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil> rovero@oc.nps.navy.mil (Josh Rovero) writes:
- >I'm trying to install a PROCOM CD-ROM (a funny bus Sony) on an OS/2
- >system. The device driver pcd650s.sys loads ok and doesn't complain,
- >but mscdex.exe doesn't seem to respond to reasonable settings of
- >DOS_VERSION. It always reports "Incorrect DOS version", as if it was
- >written to detect and not run under OS/2 (:-)).
-
- The answer is in the FAQ List, although I could perhaps make it
- clearer.
-
- You need to use a specific DOS session. See Appendix E of your
- Installation Guide and/or the online Command Reference under VMDISK
- for further information.
-
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