Does WFW work okay with other DOS?

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Name: Phil Calvert
Date: August 13, 2006 at 08:41:07 Pacific
Subject: Does WFW work okay with other DOS?
OS: Win2K, Debian stable
CPU/Ram: PII_300 MHz_256 MB

Comment:

Hi,
I have a WFW 3.11 CD from an old computer. Unfortunately, I don't believe I bothered to save the MS-DOS 6.22 diskettes (stupid of me). If I did, I don't know what I did with them. Will Win 3.1 / WFW 3.11 work fine with other versions of DOS (preferably one that is available for free somewhere)?
Phil

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Response Number 1

Name: dosser
Date: August 13, 2006 at 09:11:27 Pacific
Subject: Does WFW work okay with other DOS?

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The only Open Source and "free" dos is Freedos http://www.fredos.org check out their FAQ's

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Response Number 2

Name: dosser
Date: August 13, 2006 at 09:39:40 Pacific
Subject: Does WFW work okay with other DOS?

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http://www.freedos.org/freedos/news/technote/200.html

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Response Number 3

Name: Netboy76
Date: August 13, 2006 at 10:24:28 Pacific
Subject: Does WFW work okay with other DOS?

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Also free is DR DOS 7.03 it should be still around if you search for it.

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Response Number 4

Name: Phil Calvert
Date: August 13, 2006 at 10:30:21 Pacific
Subject: Does WFW work okay with other DOS?

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Hmmm, I think the easiest thing to do is to just use DOS 7.1. Since I also have Win98, that would be the easiest thing to do. Of course, I will need to apply a patch in order for it to work.
Phil

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Response Number 5

Name: dosser
Date: August 13, 2006 at 10:32:03 Pacific
Subject: Does WFW work okay with other DOS?

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DR-DOS is FREE for Personal Use:
http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/drdos/
Also "3XSTART.EXE Patch to enable Windows 3.1x to run under MS-DOS 7.xx (aka WinDOS) and FAT32 (Part of W95 OSR2-KIT.EXE)"
http://oldfiles.org.uk/powerload/win3x.htm

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CD ROM Does not work 1st time DOS 6.22 & 3.11- help? Windows for Workgroups Bootdisk rebooting problem DOS & Windows 3.11...all deleted???	Have an old monitor with horizonal lines FAT32 Disk Access PC DOS 2000 How to find cdrom name? win 3.1 and dos not compatable 3.11 OS on a newer machine

Response Number 6

Name: os2fan2
Date: August 16, 2006 at 02:45:58 Pacific
Subject: Does WFW work okay with other DOS?

Reply: (edit)

Windows for Workgroups will run quite nicely under both PC-DOS and MS-DOS. It does work well with DR-DOS, but microsoft's alterations to Windows with the view of excluding other DOS versions has been a subject of court cases, eg Digital Research vs MSFT.
I have run it under PC-DOS and OS/2 for years.
W
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Response Number 7

Name: Phil Calvert
Date: August 16, 2006 at 12:12:16 Pacific
Subject: Does WFW work okay with other DOS?

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Hello os2fan2,
Does Windows perform any differently when running within OS/2? For example, is it more stable? And what about speed?
Phil

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Response Number 8

Name: os2fan2
Date: August 29, 2006 at 00:35:45 Pacific
Subject: Does WFW work okay with other DOS?

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You have to raid hobbes site to get the necessary fixes to run WfW under OS/2. But it does work.
OS/2 does come with winos2, which is an ibm recompile of the same code that microsoft used for win31. It has a number of bugs removed (eg calc: 3.11-3.10 = 0.01, not 0.00, the uskbdx driver has the euro symbol, etc). If you have OS/2, you can extract the winos2 files for use under dos!
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The dream we dream together is reality.

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