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WinDos for Windows - For When You Really need DOS
Copyright 1993 Bruce W. Nunnally, All rights Reserved.
WinDos carries no warranty. Make no Claims.
WinDos cannot be bundled with any other product without
specific written permission from the author.
Thank you for downloading WinDos. WinDos is a program
that allows you to launch dos applications which do not
run properly under Windows from Windows.
The technique is simple. WinDos closes windows, runs
the dos application, then restarts windows. The advantage
is a stable, fast dos environment, at the price of the
loss of multitasking capability.
WinDos is ideal for playing games that need speed - you
start the game just like any other dos icon, but windows
is not running in the background as it is in a normal
dos window, or fullscreen. So all your cpu time goes into
the game, and not into waiting for a task-switch command.
In order to use WinDos place the file windos.exe in your
windows subdirectory, usually c:\windows. Create a batch
file which starts your dos application and place it somewhere
in the path. From Windows Program Manager, use
File|New|Program Item to create an icon for the dos application.
on commandline, type windos, then the batch file for the
dos application as a parameter to windos, like this:
commandline: windos mcgee.bat
you can put the Name as the Name of the game, in this case,
Mcgee.
If you run windos with no parameter, it will open a dos
shell. If you run the LandMark speedcom program in windos
and in normal windows dos, you will see the difference.
I may be contacted on CIS at Bruce Nunnally, 73043,3375.
I monitor the FIDO net CD-ROM and Windows conferences.
Windos is ShareWare. If you use Windos, please
forward US$5 to:
Bruce Nunnally
1304 Todd Drive
Plano TX, 75023
In check or money order.
Continued use of a product without paying for it is theft.
Purchase of shareware encourages the production of shareware.
Thanks,
Bruce