Re: F5--and everything went black...

[Michael Norman michael.norman@xxxxxxxx]

At 10:35 PM 7/1/2007, Robert Holmgren wrote:

** Reply to message from Si Wright  on Thu,
28 Jun 2007 22:19:00 -0700 (PDT)

> PS: Noting the title of this thread, I wonder if Jon is still
> struggling with his F5 key.


In thinking about this and anomalies I've encountered, I came across
an XP component I'd never heard of, the *forcedos* argument. MS had
an article on this here
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/forcedos.mspx?mfr=true.
Article says, *Windows XP does not use this command. It is accepted
only for compatibility with MS-DOS files.* Which, I'm guessing, means
that it forces XP to deal with 16-bit programs that XP, for some
reason, without it won't. I also assumed, since there is no reference
to it in our archives, that it's superfluous to our XY purposes.


Michael Norman