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- To: Kerry Lee High Jr <khigh01@saucer.cc.umr.edu>
- Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 12:46:45 -0400
- From: rick.ho@utoronto.ca
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- On Sun, 12 May 1996, Kerry Lee High Jr wrote:
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- > rick.ho@utoronto.ca wrote:
- > : On Sun, 12 May 1996 red.bug@ix.netcom.com wrote:
- > : > I have a good question for you.....
- > : > Executor will not read the Macintosh cd in windows 95....UNLESS:
- > : > I boot in MS Dos mode. Then, it reads it fine. Any suggestions?
- > : > Thanks! red.bug
- > : Executor requires the MS CD-ROM Extension (MSCDEX) to read a Mac format
- > : CD, Windows 95 uses the new CDFS within the GUI. When you boot or shell
- > : out to MS DOS mode, Win 95 switches back to MSCDEX to let you use the
- > : CD-ROM, that's why Executor can see Mac CDs only under MS DOS mode (not
- > : MS DOS session).
- > Move the mscdex line from your DOSSTART.BAT file to your AUTOEXEC.BAT.
- >
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- That's true, by loading MSCDEX in autoexec.bat, you can read Mac CDs even
- under Windows 95 DOS sessions (in fact, that's what I'm doing). However,
- I believe MSCDEX can cause conflicts between MS CD extension and CDFS,
- and that's why Microsoft decided to have Win 95 move it to dosstart.bat
- in the first place.
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- The other way to do so is to remove CDFS and use solely MSCDEX. This
- works perfectly and won't cause any conflicts. BUT Win 95 complains the
- CD drive is using real mode, not protected mode, theoretically slower.
-
- :->
- Rick
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