21st May 1996
             A pointer to the OS2DOS Frequently Given Answers
   Please read the OS2DOS Frequently Given Answers before posting, so that
   you don't waste everyone's time and money unnecessarily.  If your sysop
   does not have the OS2DOS FGA available for users to read already, then
   please encourage him to make it so.  The FGA is for both your and his
   benefit.  You can File Request FGA-OS2D.ZIP, the archive form of the
   FGA, from 2:440/4.0, 1:202/1207.0, 1:104/725.0, 1:387/800.0,
   3:800/402.0, or any site on the Fernwood file distribution backbone.
   Here are the Frequently Given Answers that are currently included :
      ~ What the OS2DOS echo is.
      ~ What sorts of DOS and DOS+Windows applications should be expected
        to work under OS/2.
      ~ What sorts of DOS and DOS+Windows applications should be expected
        not to work under OS/2.
      ~ Windows VxDs and OS/2.
      ~ Using AutoCAD for DOS under OS/2.
      ~ Using Microsoft Visual C++ for DOS under OS/2.
      ~ Using DOS applications written by Borland under OS/2 including
        Borland C++ for DOS.
      ~ Using 32-bit Borland C++ for DOS under OS/2.
      ~ How to stop the "reload file from disk?" prompt from appearing
        when working with the IDE for Borland C++ for DOS.
      ~ Installing Borland DOS applications into Workplace Shell.
      ~ Using DOOM for DOS under OS/2.
      ~ Using DOS games softwares under OS/2.
      ~ Errors in DOS comms softwares under OS/2.
      ~ Improving performance of DOS comms softwares under OS/2.
      ~ How to prevent the modem from hanging up when users invoke a door.
      ~ How to start another session from within a Virtual DOS Machine.
      ~ How to convert DesqView aware applications to OS/2 aware
        applications.
      ~ Using OS2SPEED and 4DOS together.
      ~ How to defragment and repair SuperFAT partitions in OS/2.
      ~ What 4DOS and 4OS2 are.
      ~ Why you don't need the Windows permanent swapfile, 386SPART.PAR.
      ~ What WINDOS.COM is.
      ~ How DOS and DOS+Windows applications can run from and use HPFS.
      ~ Using a SoundBlaster from Windows under OS/2.
      ~ Using (or rather, not using) MSCDEX under OS/2.
      ~ How to detect a Virtual DOS Machine from a DOS program.
      ~ How to release timeslices to OS/2 from a DOS program.
      ~ OS/2 system calls available to DOS programs running under OS/2.
      ~ How OS/2 supports DOS and DOS+Windows applications.
      ~ How virtual memory affects Virtual DOS Machines.
      ~ What VDMs and VMBs are.
      ~ Why one would need a VMB instead of a VDM, and how to create one.
      ~ What the VMM and what VDDs are.
      ~ Where the default settings used in the VDM settings dialogue
        come from.
  / JdeBP -- Moderator, International FIDONET (and RBBS) OS2DOS echo       .
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