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echo: lord
to: Donald Tidmore
from: George Pope
date: 2003-06-11 12:41:40
subject: ISO: DOSPATCH TSR

On (08 Jun 03) Donald Tidmore wrote to Daryl Stout...
 DT> If someone is using either Windows ME or Windows XP, the operating
 DT> system will NOT allow you to run ANY program, TSR or otherwise, from
 DT> autoexec.bat. The only thing allowed in there is the normal SET xxx
 DT> commands.  You can always try to run TSRs from the LORD start.bat
 DT> file.  I use that technique so that LORD runs with the PC Magazine
 DT> ANSI.COM utility activated.
 DT>
 DT> Better not to depend on those TSR programs since the newer operating
 DT> systems from Microsoft are now disallowing all program execution from
 DT> autoexec.bat files.  I have no knowledge of Windows 2000, but it may
 DT> be the same way as Win-ME, since they were released in the same year.
 DT> Donald.

Dirty rotters!

What about putting the Dospatch TSR into the STARTUP folder?

Your friend,
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