ml> pretty much, yes... there are/were only a few things different and/or
 ml> added to give the networking capabilities and they were pretty much
 ml> limited to "within" windows... many of us did what we could to load
 ml> networking stuff before loading windows so that the network was
 ml> available no matter what shell we were running under... 
 DC> As it is, I've never run Win 3.x  I started off with Win95   

 ml> you dunno what you missed ;)

 DC> Yes, I do!  I've had the reset WIN95 and had to go through 3.11  to
 DC> do so.  

because you used an upgrade disk, no doubt ;)

FWIW: you didn't have to load W3... all you had to do was to have the disks
available so that you could feed them when the w9x install asked to confirm
that you did have an existing windows set...

)\/(ark