[arachne] Re: Crash back to DOS *2*

["Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ" <bastiaan.pa3ffz@xxxxxxxxx>]

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On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:15:37 +0000 GMT, Udo Kuhnt wrote:

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>>> I just checked it again on my test machine; I have the same amount of
>>> free conventional mem before and after running Windows, so it works
>>> here with Win98SE. Do you load any TSR programs or device drivers after
>>> starting Windows that might keep it from exiting properly?

>> Udo,
>> The free memory is same because...
>> Windows is still running, you are not
>> Exiting/Crashing to DOS without having
>> Win.com, regardless of name, in memory.
>> To not have win.com loaded you must do cold reboot and boot to command line

> Hi Wiz,

> with "before running Windows", I mean exactly that - before I have
> started win.com and thus Windows. I do not need any reboot since I have
> Win98 configured to not load win.com automatically, so unless I run
> win.com, only MS-DOS 7.1 is active. And after I shutdown Windows, it
> simply terminates and I am back in MS-DOS again. That is what I meant
> when I said that "crashing" Windows is not necessary to go back to DOS.

> I do not know why this does not work for Bastiaan; AFAIK this has always
> worked with any version of DOS and Windows, up to and including Win98SE.

I did some test again... must be my machine :-(

After three times crashing back to DOS there are 3 commands.com and
back in DOS the next message is shown:
"At least one DOS program is still running"

THen I type EXIT and windows is started again... just like I am running
DOS from the DOS box in windows.

************ More testing:
DOS => win =>crash back=> DOS no problems, except 10k of memory lost.
Now type EXIT in DOS mode => windows there again, but very quick :-)

So often changing between the two operating systems becomes very 
quick now.

Bastiaan

> Regards,

> Udo

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