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Re: os/2 warp installation of Executor



On Wed, 7 Jun 1995, Silvia J Pena wrote:

>      "Real DOS" refers to owning and running a copy of MS-DOS or PC-DOS 
> on their system.  With OS/2 and Windows 95, IBM and Microsoft have 
> written emulation versions of DOS.  Certain utilties programs, such as 
> The Norton Utilties and Central Point Utilties, will not run with OS/2 or 
> Windows 95.  Since OS/2 does exhibit the HPFS (Hierarchical Performance 
> File System), IBM recommends that you create a separate hard disk 
> partition with a copy of "real DOS".  I can imagine that Executor users 
> will find this problem with Windows '95.  Thank you.

	Don't be afraid.  Executor runs just fine under Windows95, and 
runs the same under the Win95 version of DOS (you can boot to a command 
line; the ver command gives "Windows 95 [4.00.474]" or some such thing) 
and under the "previous version of DOS" which Win95 also supports.  It 
runs fine from the graphical part too, though one must tell it how much 
memory to use.  And the filesystem is essentially the same as FAT, but 
adds on some other information; there are new versions of Norton, etc., 
coming out to run under Win95.  The reason one can't use old utilities is 
because either (1) they need to directly address the disk in a way Win95 
won't allow (meaning that they probably wouldn't run under Win3.1 either) 
or (2) that even if given direct access (outside of the GUI) they would 
mangle or choke on the 255-character filenames.  Since you can boot from 
DOS 6 on a Win95 partition (and then run Win3.1), there's no need to have 
a separate partition the way OS/2 requires.  I haven't tried giving 
Executor direct disk access--that might not work--but otherwise, 
everything works.

Scott Shuchart
shuchart@fas.harvard.edu


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