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to: Dallas Hinton
from: Paul Quinn
date: 2012-08-28 23:45:00
subject: Daynbr

Hi! Dallas,

On Tue, 28 Aug 12, you wrote to me:

 PQ>> Any old DOS tools that might have set/changed a DOS %envar% no longer
 PQ>> works. There is a way around it...

 DH> Nice idea, but no. The problem is that I'm running 64 bit, so 16 bit
 DH> stuff no longer works at all (at least, not without running a virtual
 DH> machine, which I'm trying to avoid).

Oh, okay.  In that case I say 'suck it up', whoosie.  :)  VMs are the way;
there are many benefits with minimal risks.

Cheers,
Paul.

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