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Re: Running win95 and 3.1.1



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Penelope:

No-one needs Win 3.xx.  Win 95 is more stable, recovery is faster and has
fewer problems than win 3.xx.  If anyone is updating to Win 95 they should
consider updating directly to Win 98.

Lionel


-----Original Message-----
From: Penelope Reed Doob <prdoob@xxxxxxxx>
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sunday, June 28, 1998 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: Running win95 and 3.1.1


>1. Any idea WHY you need 3.1.1? have you tried doing whatever you need to
>do in Win95 or from a DOS window? Maybe worth a go...
>
>
>2. If you have plenty of space on the hard drive, you might just create a
>new directory, install 3.1.1, and then boot in Win95, exit to DOS, change
>directory to the 3.1.1 directory, and invoke Win 3.1.1 ftom that directory
>in DOS (I think just plain "win" does it). If poss., do this on your
>local machine, not on the server--have it behave as if it's
>stand-alone.It's been a long time since I've had to do this sort of
>shenanigan, but it may well work.
>
>Best,
>
>Penelope Reed Doob
>
>
>
>
>On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, michael wrote:
>
>> Apologies for this question, but if someone can help me, or point me
>> towards a suitable group online, I would be most grateful.
>> For a particular course I'm doing I need to run win 3.1.1 on one of my
>> networked computers that already has win95b on it.   The linked
>> computers are P166 and 486dx66, both with win95b, and with plenty of
>> memory.
>> I do not want to have to format either machine's hdd.
>> Any offers, please respond directly to me.   Thanks
>>
>