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RE: windows xp and dos

Title: RE: windows xp and dos







When you say, "Xywrite 4.018 DOS does work in Windows 2000", what do you mean by "work".

Xywrite runs on my Win2000 too...it's just too ugly to actually use.




Brian H.




-----Original Message-----

From: Thomas J Hawley [mailto:tjh@xxxxxxxx]

Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 8:39 AM

To: xywrite

Subject: Re: windows xp and dos






There's no "real DOS" in Windows 2000 or XP, and that's the case whether

you are in a window or full screen.  When you run a DOS application, you

are running NTVDM.EXE which is the Windows virtual device machine for DOS.

It's basically the same way that OS/2 handles DOS applications, by creating

a "DOS Box" emulator within the operating system.  While OS/2 does it much

more elegantly than Windows, it does work in W2K.




Xywrite 4.018 DOS does work in Windows 2000; I've been using it there (on

both a ThinkPad T21 laptop, and a Dell workstation) since moving from OS/2

at the end of last year.




Tom Hawley

tjh@xxxxxxxx