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At 05:50 AM 5/16/96 MDT, Clifford T. Matthews wrote:
>Does Windows '95 come with MSCDEX?
Short answer: yes (in the 'command' sub-dir)
>Right now it's necessary for many people to boot Windows '95 in DOS
>mode and use MSCDEX in order to access Mac CD-ROMs. When we do a
>native Win32 port this won't be necessary, but we're really concerned
>that people buying new systems that come with Windows '95 preinstalled
>won't have MSCDEX.
Not all setups need to boot to dos - with beta1, (and beta0r3), the CD
shows up perfectly when running E/D under the GUI (full screen of course)