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From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Problems with DOS 4.01?
Keywords: Windows DOS
Message-ID: <5251@bwdls58.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jan 91 19:44:54 GMT
References: <1991Jan14.225000.8188@mrspoc.Transact.COM>
Sender: mlord@bwdls58.UUCP
Reply-To: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <1991Jan14.225000.8188@mrspoc.Transact.COM> steven@Transact.COM writes:
<I installed DOS with the default setup, removing ANSI.SYS, leaving the
<FASTFILE (or whatever it is) stuff, and adding HIMEM.SYS in config.sys.
<I confess that I have not done a lot of reading in the DOS User Guide
<as yet, so if the answer is RTFM, please be gentle!  :^>

Yes.. replace the dos 4.01 versions of HIMEM.SYS and SMARTDRV.SYS with those
from the windows 3.0 kit.  Things should then work much better.

Imagine that.. Windows incompatible with DOS !   Who else but MS..
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