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Received: from arthur.cs.purdue.edu (arthur.cs.purdue.edu [128.10.2.1]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA12884 for <executor@nacm.com>; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 07:32:05 -0700 Received: from lab11.cs.purdue.edu (huntercr@lab11.cs.purdue.edu [128.10.11.111]) by arthur.cs.purdue.edu (8.6.10/PURDUE_CS-1.3) with ESMTP id <JAA04683>; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 09:31:47 -0500 Received: (huntercr@localhost) by lab11.cs.purdue.edu (8.6.10/PURDUE_CS-1.3) id <JAA09981>; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 09:31:45 -0500 From: huntercr@cs.purdue.edu (Charles Hunter) Message-Id: <199507121431.JAA09981@lab11.cs.purdue.edu> Subject: Re: OS/2 Warp - Quicker way to Executor To: p8819343@vmsuser.acsu.unsw.EDU.AU (Kym Farrell), executor@nacm.com (Executor mailing list) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 09:31:45 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <01HSQYFV19UA8WXK47@vmsuser.acsu.unsw.EDU.AU> from "Kym Farrell" at Jul 11, 95 03:16:41 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 834 Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk > > Just thought I'd mention a quicker way to get E/D1.99n up and > running under OS/2 warp (although anyone who's struggled to get warp fully > functional may already have worked it out!). Instead of the somewhat > tiresome method of booting a virtual DOS session from floppy (I'm always > misplacing the damned disk), you can set up an DOS boot disk image file on > your hard disk & use it instead. This methods a bit quicker and a lot more > convienient. [ Docemented Disk image procedure deleted ] This is good information and all, but why would anyone need to do it anyway? E/D works under OS/2 normal dos sessions [ MDOS ] just fine. In fact, I would recommend *not* running from disk image, as VMB's take up alot more processing time than VDM's. A little confused, Charles Hunter > > > Regards > Kym. >