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- Fred et al,
-
- >Why cant you use the thing in OS/2 to make an image of a boot disk, then
- >run it in a window. I have done it once. Make a DOS 6 boot disk with the
- >CD-rom driver and MSCDEX.EXE and then make the disk image of it for OS/2.
- >I cant recall how it was done...
- >
- >On 2 Jan 1996, Doug Wing wrote:
- >
- >> That is correct for people running MSDOS, but it does not help the large
- >> gathering of OS/2 users. MSCDEX will not run under OS/2 as the CD reconition
- >> is automatically passed on to all DOS sessions. I (and possible) the
- >> original author of this thread can read DOS CD's under Executor, but the Mac
- >> formats can not be read. I myself am looking for a solution to this problem.
-
- ..snip snip snip...
-
- I don't know about the MSCDEX problem itself, but the information about
- building DOS boot disk images is in the OS/2 (or OS/2 Warp) Command Reference
- (depending on version) in the Information folder, under VMDISK: have a look
- under 'OS/2 Commands by Name'.
-
- Cheers, Alex Newman
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