[arachne] Re: Crash back to DOS

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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.

Regards,

Udo

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