Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!PSUVM.PSU.EDU!MBT3 From: MBT3@PSUVM.PSU.EDU ("Mike Tierney") Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: DOS windows in Enhanced mode?? Message-ID: <9009052355.AA21062@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 5 Sep 90 22:54:00 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 21 IBM has confused me once again. At a exposition here at Penn State, they showed me a 386sx model 55 ps/2 running windows. Since I only have a 286 machine, I was interested in seeing the 386 Enhanced mode of windows and running a DOS-app in a window just to see how well it worked. I made sure it was in 386 Enhanced mode, then double-clicked the DOS Prompt icon. It then proceeded to shell out from windows to the dos prompt, just as it does on my 286 in standard mode. I exited, and once again made sure it was in Enhanced mode.. it was indeed, and had plenty of free memory. I've seen posts from people who say that they run multiple DOS Prompt windows in 386 Enhanced.. so basically I'm wondering: what was wrong? IS it possible to run the dos prompt in a window? Or was it just Windows wasn't set up correctly on the machine i was using? Maybe a missing PIF file that would give windows the necessary information needed to launch it in a window? I was thinking of upgrading to a 386(sx), but if you can't work from the DOS prompt in a window, then the upgrade would really be basically pointless. Anyone have any insights on this? Thanks, Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tierney "Any technology without some attendant risk of misuse is probably trivial" - Louise Kohl