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re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS
Monday, December 2, 2002 at 11:54 am
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Posted by Michael (2800 messages posted)


Read what I wrote again - I didn't say that himem.sys wasn't needed, as there are 
occasions when it is needed.

What I said was that an exetended memory manager wasn't needed.




On Monday, December 2, 2002 at 11:40 am, Oh_dear wrote:
>Need for himem etc statements in CONFIG.SYS depends on whether you boot from the 
>startup floppy to DOS, or select the DOS option under Win9x.  Win9x option does 
provide 
>the himem support.  Booting from the  floppy, it has to be in config.sys 
>
>For the OP, create a Windows startup floppy and look in the config.sys and autoexec.bat 
>files on it.  You should find the details of the statements needed for CD support. 
>
>




Written in response to:
re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Oh_dear: Monday, December 2, 2002 at 11:40 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Oh_dear: Monday, December 2, 2002 at 12:26 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Yann: Sun, Dec 1, 2002, 9:35 pm)
*re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Dale: Sun, Dec 1, 2002, 10:47 pm)
-re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (jmb: Mon, Dec 2, 2002, 1:56 am)
-re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Michael: Mon, Dec 2, 2002, 4:39 am)
-re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Oh_dear: Mon, Dec 2, 2002, 11:40 am)
-re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Michael: Mon, Dec 2, 2002, 11:54 am)
-re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Oh_dear: Mon, Dec 2, 2002, 12:26 pm)
*re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Yann: Mon, Dec 2, 2002, 4:55 pm)
-re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Michael: Thu, Dec 5, 2002, 5:52 am)
*re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Oh_dear: Thu, Dec 5, 2002, 8:34 am)
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