-=[ Quoting Kurt Weiske to Phil Roberts ]=-
 TD> Just wondering if anyone is running there BBS under Win 95's dos.
 TD> ie install win 95 then delete it and only use the dos
 GG> This will not work.  There is no "just the dos".
 PR> You can't kill it, but you can use TweakUI or other method to go
 PR> directly to a DOS prompt.  Seems like a lot of overhead for DOS though,
 PR> especially when the BBS task is likely to be the only thing running.
 KW> Look at the file MSDOS.SYS, in the root directory of a Windows95 boot
 KW> drive. It used to be a binary file, now it includes the following
 KW> lines:
 KW> [Paths]
 KW> WinDir=C:\WINDOWS
 KW> WinBootDir=C:\WINDOWS
 KW> HostWinBootDrv=C
I'm aware of MSDOS.SYS being a flat file instead of a binary.  This is
another method, does the same thing as running TweakUI, just simpler.  The
overhead I mentioned is the memory and hard drive space gobbled up by Win95.
There are many files you can delete or simply not install, but you're still
going to have at least 100 meg taken up by Win95.  For a multitasking OS,
this is reasonable, but as a single-task DOS I'd say it's a little
outrageous.
If you have the hardware for it, Win95 will run Maximus in style, although
I prefer to run Maximus under OS/2 or DOS.
                                Phil
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