Re: Not quite (not yet) NB

["DR.J.S.MEISAMI" <MEISAMI>]

> Reply-to:     Dorothy Day <day>
> Subject:       Re: Not quite (not yet) NB

Dorothy,

I'm attempting  (!) to reply off-list (attempting, because WinPMail
seems to offer about 5% of the options that plain vanilla Pegasus
does; one step forward and about 18 giant steps backward?).

I have looked at Windows\Command, which isn't very enlightening;
various thingies come up with "missing parameter", or some such thing
(like .sys; also deltree, which I assume would let me look at my
tree, if there is such a thing?). All my attempts to find a "tree" in
W95 have, so far, failed; where on earth might it be?

I really need to install NB to work with over the Xmas break (yes, I
know I've left things too long, but "real life" seems to impinge more
and more...). Any advice?

Thanks, and happy holidays!
Julie
> Julie,
>         DOS 7 (the version underlying Win95) is in the \Windows\Command
> directory, not in \Dos--most of the utilities you expect will be found
> there, though probably not all.
>         You'll find that in your root directory you should have both
> Win95 versions of systems files (Autoexec.bat, Config.sys, Msdos.sys,
> and Io.sys), and an alternate set for when you boot into Dos and get
> temporarily renamed from their normal names (Autoexec.dos, Config.dos,
> Msdos.dos, and Io.dos) to the names you expect (those above). If you
> install drivers for Dos-only use, these are the files that get modified.
> If you've loaded Win95 and look at the files in effect, you may be
> mystified that those files don't show changes you were sure you made in
> Dos--those changes were made to the *.dos files, which get renamed back
> from the names you recognize to *.dos when you load Win95. The dual set
> of files doesn't normally affect you at all, but can be confusing if you
> work in both environments.
>         If you load NB in a Win95 window, you'll never deal with the
> *.dos files, but will be working in the Win95 environment. Paul is right
> that Win95 provides all the drivers you need without taking up lower
> memory the way Dos drivers in config.sys would. Just trust the minimal
> files will do the job, and get much better memory management than you
> had under Win3.1x.
>
>         Dorothy
>
> On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, DR.J.S.MEISAMI wrote:
>
> > Dear notabenieri,
> >
> >
> >
> > Due to circumstances beyond my control, I have had to install Win95
> > on my laptop. (Well, what happened was, we tried to upgrade, got a
> > mishmash of Win3.11 and Win95 files that were definitely not talking
> > to each other, took the laptop to the college IT consultant,  who, in
> > his infinite wisdom, decided the best thing was to scrub the HD and
> > start over.  Which (against my better judgement, I must say) he duly
> > did.
> >
> > Result: Imagine my surprise when, after doing various checks (like:
> > autoexec.bat has 2 lines, 1 path and 1 language); there is no config.
> > sys file, even though it says there is in the directory); no upper
> > memory (on mem), etc. to find, ultimately, that there is no DOS
> > installed; only what Win95 laughingly calls "DOS mode", which,
> > believe me, is not the same.
> >
> > So I guess what I need to do (or have someone do) is reinstall DOS,
> > before I can reinstall NB (not to mention all the other stuff that
> > Win.3.11 had but which seems to be missing now).
> >
> > Query: Can I reinstall DOS from my backups of  the original Tosh
> > installation discs? (Mkdir DOS, copy, etc.?) And can I copy stuff
> > from Win3.11 over to Win95 (the stuff that is missing, that is)? I'm
> > in a quandary here; I don't know quite enough to do it all myself,
> > nor quite enough to tell my IT person exactly what I want (although I
> > did make it quite clear I wanted plain vanilla DOS, with the
> > appropriate prompt, somewhere).
> > In short: help, please?
> >
> > Julie Meisami, Oxford
> >
>
> *****
> Dorothy Day
> School of Library and Information Science
> Indiana University
> day
> *****
>         "He also surfs who only sits and waits."
>