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From: scotts@cpqhou.UUCP (Scott Shaffer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: window386 in dos4.0 ???
Keywords: incompatable dos4 and win386
Message-ID: <542@cpqhou.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 90 06:00:00 GMT
References: <754@eedsp.eedsp.gatech.edu> <1779@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de> <6889@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
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In article <6889@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>, toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) writes:
> In article <1779@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de> gerten@uklirb.UUCP (Rainer Gerten) writes:
> >In <754@eedsp.eedsp.gatech.edu> wchung@eedsp.gatech.edu (W. Chung) writes:
> >>	Is it true that you can not run window386 version 2.? in
> >>with dos4.0.
> >Windows 386, Version 2.03 and 2.10 don't work with DOS 4.01, but
> >Version 2.11 does. 
> 
> Well I have Windows 386 version 2.11 and DOS 4.01, and whenever I try to run
> a DOS application Windows insists on reading drive A: so that I must always
> have a floppy inserted.  This is a bad problem which didn't occur with DOS 3.3
> (I upgraded -- a mistake?) nor does it occur with my copy of Windows 286
> version 2.11.  
> 
> Anybody know what's happening?
> 

Well, it seems the problem lies in Windows deciding where COMMAND.COM is
on init.  One possible fix is to edit the COMMANDE.PIF, COMMANDF.PIF and
COMMANDW.PIF and change the entry for "Initial Directory:" from blank
to "C:\" or whatever is appropriate.  Also, if you continue to have
the problem with a DOS app, edit (or create) a PIF file for it and be
sure to completely specify its path in the "Initial Directory:" box.

I know this fixes the problem (I think its does), but I couldn't tell
you exactly what is going on.


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