Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!arizona.edu!misvax.mis.arizona.edu!dbean From: dbean@misvax.mis.arizona.edu (David Bean) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps Subject: Re: MS-DOS v5.0 Release Date 11th June Message-ID: <3JUN91204616@misvax.mis.arizona.edu> Date: 4 Jun 91 01:46:16 GMT Article-I.D.: misvax.3JUN91204616 References: <28466BFD.13771@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <3259@sparko.gwu.edu> Reply-To: dbean@misvax.mis.arizona.edu Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.apps Distribution: world,local Organization: University of Arizona MIS Department - Mosaic Group Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: misvax.mis.arizona.edu News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-a4 Lines: 22 In article <3259@sparko.gwu.edu>, timur@seas.gwu.edu (The Time Traveler) writes... >In article gurganus@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (James P Gurganus) writes: >>riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) writes: >>I saw someone using a beta version of Ms Dos 5.0. They said you needed >>some extra file in your root directory to run Windows 3.0. Does anyone >>know what this file does or if its really needed? > >That is correct. The file is called something like WINA20.386. I >don't know what it does, and I haven't tried deleting it either. Well, I did delete WINA20.386...and Windows won't boot up without it (at least in Enhanced Mode). I got past the Windows splash screen, and then it gave me a nasty message...something to the effect of "Application error, WINA20.386 must be in the root directory to run in Enhanced Mode!" Whether Windows will run in Standard mode without it, I don't know. I restored my WINA20.386 file before even trying WIN/S (or whatever the code is for standard mode). David "Not-a-Windows-Fan-Yet" Bean University of Arizona