Title: RE: Loading printer in XyWinYes, for good and ill, NT, W2K, and XP no longer "sit atop" a DOS base. The boot is always into Win and DOS is now what is considered "emulated" DOS. It's still useful in the same ways it always was, but there are some VERY crucial differences. You CAN do something that looks like booting into DOS...that is, you can get a command-prompt before the GUI starts...but it's not "pure" DOS. Windoze is loaded and most of it is running. Now, if you were to boot with a floppy containing DOS I believe you'd have access to the C: drive, but I seem to recall that there are problems with that technique...which I can't remember the details of.
Brian Henderson
Print Composition Dept.
Mitchell Repair Information Co.
San Diego, CA
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-----Original Message-----
From: Harry Binswanger [mailto:hb@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 10:23 AM
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Loading printer in XyWin
Patricia Godfrey wrote:
>(preferably by booting into DOS, but I gather XP doesn't allow
>thatIs this true? You can't boot into DOS in XP?!
Harry Binswanger
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