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MSCDEX.EXE?
Name: Wonderer Date: December 14, 2000 at 07:42:43 Pacific
Name: Callan Date: December 14, 2000 at 07:49:09 Pacific
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It's the DOS driver for a CD rom (MicroSoft CD EXtensions). Windows has its own CD drivers, but if you're trying to use it in DOS (to install Win 95 for example!) you need to include MSCDEX with the appropriate parameters in config.sys for your CD to be recognised by DOS.
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Response Number 2
Name: Wonderer Date: December 14, 2000 at 07:59:21 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks for sharing the knowledge!
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Response Number 3
Name: Preston Date: December 14, 2000 at 11:44:51 Pacific
Reply:
Callan is close, I believe, but a little bit off. You need two files to make a CD-Rom work under DOS/Win3. First, a driver has to be loaded in the c:\config.sys file, then you load mscdex.exe in the autoexec.bat.
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