Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!bonnie.ics.uci.edu!bparekh From: bparekh@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Behram Parekh) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps Subject: Re: MS-DOS v5.0 Release Date 11th June Message-ID: <284BFBF9.19712@ics.uci.edu> Date: 4 Jun 91 20:45:45 GMT References: <28466BFD.13771@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <3259@sparko.gwu.edu> Reply-To: bparekh@ics.uci.edu (Behram Parekh) Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: bonnie.ics.uci.edu 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. You don't have to keep the file in your root directory. You can put it in the DOS directory as long as you include a /w switch under the enviroment variable "switches". Not using windows, I have no idea what it does or whether it works from the DOS directory with the /w switch... -- Behram Parekh bparekh@ics.uci.edu Disclaimer: UCI ICS has no idea what I'm talking about, but then neither do I.