SH>Anyway, I have been working with OpenDos (freeware release of Novell Dos
SH>7 for those who haven't heard of it.  It is available from
SH>www.caldera.com.).
SH>Anyway, I think I have it pretty well set up now.  I have installed it
SH>on a laptop, more precisely, a Compaq Contura 3/25c.  It has been
Compaqs often require Compaq DOS instead of good old generic
MS DOS.  The same may apply to your substitute for DOS, which
Compaq will no doubt not support.
SH>CTRL-ALT-DEL.  This will lock up the system every time.  Is there
SH>something unique about Compaq laptops?  So far, I haven't found anything
Compaq everything is unique.
The software could be locking out that key combination.
SH>Would I have to install some sort of keyboard driver in order for this
SH>to work correctly?  there were a couple of files in the old cpqdos
No, nothing to do with it.
SH>directory that I could copy into the opendos directory and add to the
SH>config.sys, but I don't know about mixing MS-DOS and OpenDos files.
Yep, it will probably bomb out.
                                              Al
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