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echo: os2_z3
to: Trevor Wallace
from: Bill Grimsley
date: 1997-04-03 07:59:44
subject: Fishing...

Trevor, at 17:14 on Apr 01 1997, you wrote to Chris Halliday...

TW>> device=c:\os2\mdos\ansi.sys

CH> Must you? Why not put this in DOS windows, so that it gets 
CH> unloaded when you're not running a VDM?

TW> hmmm, okay. Hardly use the DOS window anymore, so I guess I 
TW> can live without it. How much difference d'ye expect it to 
TW> make anyway?

None at all.  DOS device drivers, even if listed in config.sys, don't load
or install until an MDOS session is actually started.  Prove it yourself by
pressing Alt-F2 at bootup, and you'll see that none of the DOS drivers are
installed at that point.

Regards, Bill

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