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From: wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes)
Subject: Re: Q: How to get DOS box in OS/2 V2.0 PR3
Message-ID: <1991May11.235246.2582@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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Date: 12 May 91 03:52:46 GMT
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In article <1991May9.160456.16628@twilight.wpd.sgi.com> fanj@twilight.wpd writes:
>I would like to know how to get DOS box in OS/2 V2.0 PR3.  All I got was the
>error msg saying "DOS Emulation is not currently available".  I looked at the
>readme file in the toolkit, and there was no such comments about DOS box.
>Thanks.

I can think of two things off the top of my head.  First, check your
CONFIG.SYS to see if it has the line "PROTECTONLY=YES".  If so, change
it to say "NO", since DOS is not a protected mode application.

Second, one of the older Beta versions had a bug that wouldn't allow any
DOS boxes to open if there weren't any DOS devices loaded.  If the above
doesn't work, then try adding the line "DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\ANSI.SYS"
to your config.sys file.  Then you should be able to run DOS boxes galore.

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