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(meteorobs) win 95 and serial ports.
I got this from one of the lists I subscribe to. Thought you hacker types
could use it.
>Hi there. Well, I finally remembered to get this information to you.
>
>In a regular windows95 setup, the system boots into Win 95.
>
>You can change the setting in a single system file, to do a couple of things:
>
>One - skip the sky logo.
>two - boot into dos - not a "shell to dos" which is really what WIN95
>does, when you
>exit or "reboot to dos mode" If you dont believe it, type EXIT, and you
>pop back into WIN95!.
>
>Here is how you disable WIN95. When you do so, it doesnt kill anything. It
>just
>allows you to boot into DOS, so if you want to run a dos program, you
>dont have to
>worry about WIN95 stealing the comm ports.
>
>In win95, hit the start button in the bottom left corner.
>Select PROGRAMS, then MSDOS prompt.
>
>At the C: get into the root directory, if not already with CD\
>
>At C: type attrib -s -h -r msdos.sys [this unhides it so you can edit it.]
>
>then type EDIT msdos.sys
>
>Look for the word [options] in square brackets.
>See that BootGUI = 1... change the 1 to 0 and this prevents WIN95 booting.
>If you dont want to see the clouds logo, add this statement under [options]
>
>logo=0
>
>When done, do an ALT F, S to save the edited MSDOS.SYS file.
>then do:
>
>attrib +s +h +r msdos.sys to make it a system file, hide it from a DIR, and
>make it a read only file.
>
>Once you have done this, EXIT back to WIN95.
>
>The next time win 95 boots, you will get a dos prompt, instead of WIN95.
>
>Dont worry. to fire up WIN95, type WIN, just like it was in WIN 3.1 days.
>
>Enjoy.
>
>
>
>Byron Smith
>wa6ylb@theworks.com - Webpage: http://www.theworks.com/~wa6ylb
>wa6ylb@wa6ylb.#ccadot ca.usa.noam
>
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