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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:
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- >>> 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.
- >
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- I know this is getting off the topic of Executor, but there is a version of
- MSCDEX that will work in an OS/2 Dos box. It was especially patched to do
- so. I used it for a time before I replaced my CD-ROM with a faster one,
- which OS/2 had drivers for. So there is no need to use a DOS 6 boot disk to
- read the CD files. I still have the said MSCDEX if anyone wants a copy.
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- Bye....
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