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Ray McKnight wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Doesn’t XP
have a boot menu – hit
F8 after the BIOS finishes its thing, before</span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Winderz says
it’s loading?</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">From there
you select to boot to DOS
prompt.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">I believe
you can have the boot menu shown
automatically</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Every time
the machine boots, but that may
require a registry key edit.</span></font></p>
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size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">-----Original
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:aprssig-bounces@lists.tapr.org">aprssig-bounces@lists.tapr.org</a>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:aprssig-bounces@lists.tapr.org">mailto:aprssig-bounces@lists.tapr.org</a>] <b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">On
Behalf Of </span></b>flknbry<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, January
08, 2007
19:56<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:aprssig@lists.tapr.org">aprssig@lists.tapr.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [aprssig] dos
on a winxp
machine</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font face="Arial"
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">How does
on get into dos on a
machine running xp.Not just the dos prompt through programs.I wish to
run
dosaprs.Also i would like to change the home map to mine.when i hit the
home
key.</span></font></p>
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But is it *really* DOS in the traditional sense, with access to
comports and such? I suspect not. <br>
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Isn't it more just a means of doing some DOSsy things like format
disks, etc?<br>
<br>
Ray vk2tv<br>
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