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From: timur@seas.gwu.edu (The Time Traveler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: MS-DOS v5.0 Release Date 11th June
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Date: 3 Jun 91 19:42:10 GMT
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In article <gurganus.675797385@stable.ecn.purdue.edu> 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.