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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Windows USELESS with MSDOS 5.0!!!
Keywords: Windows MSDOS 5.0
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.204553.14016@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 17 Jun 91 20:45:53 GMT
References: <1991Jun13.235553.24042@netcom.COM>
Reply-To: poffen@SunOS (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, ATE division, San Jose, Ca.
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In article <1991Jun13.235553.24042@netcom.COM> feustel@netcom.COM (David Feustel) writes:
>Now that I've got your attention, the problem is that Windows cannot
>find any of my non MS programs when I attempt to invoke them via the
>program manager. I've spent some time trying to get hold of MS to ask
>about this, but I can't get through and the $$$ are adding up.  All of
>these programs start properly under PCDOS 3.3. Is it possible that MS
>didn't test dos 5.0 with windows?!!!

Check your paths. On my machine for example, where DOS 3.30 put my third floppy
drive as drive "C:", DOS 5.0 places it after all hard disk partitions (In this
case, as drive "E:"). This caused all my HD partitions to move up by one. My
promary boot partition used to be "D:" under 3.30, and is now "C:" under 5.0,
so I have to go to the "properties" selection under the "File" menu in the
program manager to fix all the paths.

Russ Poffenberger               DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com
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