Hey!
Windows for Workgroups always runs in 386enhanced mode, unless you run it in what Win95/Win98 called safe mode and which has limited features. This mode is VERY picky about interactions with DOS, as it moves the running DOS into a virtual task and even is able to clone it when you open multiple DOS windows. If you can run your apps in classic Windows 3.0 or 3.1, without 386enh mode, you can do that with FreeDOS. But if you want to run WfW 3.11, you will have to spend a LOT of effort to convince DOS and Windows to cooperate. You could find verbose discussions of the issue online, but http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Windows is unfortunately not what you need. By "a lot of effort" I mean "brave people have been able to run it for them at some time in the past". This is not the type of feature which works with a fixed howto, alas. What you call MS DOS 7.1 is the built-in DOS of Windows 95 or Windows 98. So if you have that, simply use your Windows 9x without bothering to replace the DOS. But if you want exactly WfW 3.11, you should use older versions of MS DOS or PC DOS or similar, those without FAT32 and without long file names, because WfW does not understand those and you would have to explicitly tell it to only access files through DOS and not directly. You could probably also use DR DOS. In any case, it will be necessary to make careful driver choices - maybe even use those shipped with WfW, which in turn leads to the problem that old MS HIMEM or EMM386 know very little about modern hardware. An obvious way to avoid the whole mess completely would be to run your Windows apps in Wine in Linux. Both Wine and Linux are free and you can tell Wine to pretend to be ANY Windows version from Windows 2.0 to Windows 10 :-) Note that dosemu2, also available for Linux (but planned to be available for Windows, too) makes it easier to use Windows and FreeDOS together even in advanced situations, because dosemu2 already does some of the protected mode work, which makes Windows relax and be a bit less picky. I hope this helps :-) And I am curious what your Wfw 3.11 apps and context are at the moment. Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
