Hello (See below quoted text for my message),
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, gneufeld wrote:
> why ever would you use an antiquated version of dos
> that is woefully more impoverished than is dos 7 in Windows? Second, what
> functions and/or programs do you have that require dos functions,
> unavailable in Windows' dos 7. Although admittedly diminished, as compared
> with dos 6.2, there are few programs I know of, or functions not available
> in Windows, that would require older versions of dos.
For one, it seems that you can not program in assembly within the
"protected mode" of Win 95/98/NT DOS - you must use good-old MS-DOS 6.22
(or simelar) for certain assembly calls to work.
Ivan Fetch
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