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From: wytten@cs.umn.edu (Dale Wyttenbach)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: weirdness involving changing video drivers with setup.exe
Message-ID: <1990Aug23.234557.25923@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 23 Aug 90 23:45:57 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
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Could anyone explain the following behavior:  I change the Windows 3.0
video driver from the default VGA to a driver from the "Other" category.
The setup seems to go smoothly, except that setup.exe puts the line:

device=c:\windows\ega.sys

in my config.sys file.  In the first place, why is it adding that line
(ega.sys) when I am dealing with vga drivers?  There *is* no file 
c:\windows\ega.sys, so when the machine boots it complains.  Do I really
need this file to run certain vga drivers, and if so, where can I get it?
It appears on the Win3.0 installation disks as ega.sy$, and having compared
the sizes of himem.sys on my hard-disk and himem.sy$ on the installation
disks, I am led to believe that .sy$ files are compressed or encrypted
in some way.

dale wyttenbach
wytten@cs.umn.edu