PCWorks: MSDOS.SYS disabling GUI

I'm coming out of lurking - with a problem.

I'm trying to set up a legacy (DOS) program on a Windows 95
laptop.
MSDOS.SYS automatically loads up the GUI (that's Windows). I
want to disable
it (GUI=0) and then let the computer read the autoexec.bat
and load up the
DOS program.

However, MSDOS.SYS is a read-only system file, and I cannot
change it with
ATTRIB.

Does anybody remember how I can modify MSDOS.SYS?

David Grossman
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If I remember right, 95 has a "restart in DOS
mode" option on the Start 
menu.
I would assume you could then launch it from there.
Safe Mode has a DOS option also.
Have you tried Start/Run/Command?
You should also be able to create a startup disk, boot to
the A drive, 
then C:.
What program is it?



David Grossman wrote:
> I'm coming out of lurking - with a problem.
> 
> I'm trying to set up a legacy (DOS) program on a
Windows 95 laptop.
> MSDOS.SYS automatically loads up the GUI (that's
Windows). I want to disable
> it (GUI=0) and then let the computer read the
autoexec.bat and load up the
> DOS program.
> 
> However, MSDOS.SYS is a read-only system file, and I
cannot change it with
> ATTRIB.
> 
> Does anybody remember how I can modify MSDOS.SYS?
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Right, Hugh.

However, I'm dealing with a user who is not at all computer
savvy. He is
familiar with his antiquated DOS-based foreign language word
processor (that
uses non-English characters) and he does not want to learn
about Windows or
deal with it <sigh!>.

The options to restart in DOS or Command mode would be fine
for the rest of
us. I need to avoid Windows in order to make my client
happy. He's stuck in
the previous millenium.

The startup disk is an option that I had not considered.
Thank you. If I
can't find a way to edit the MSDOS.SYS, I'll go that route.

I once knew how to edit MSDOS.SYS. There is a way. I forgot
how to do it
over the past decade....

David Grossman





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From: owner-pcworksimagicomm.com [mailto:owner-pcworksimagicomm.com]On
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Subject: Re: PCWorks: MSDOS.SYS disabling GUI


If I remember right, 95 has a "restart in DOS
mode" option on the Start
menu.
I would assume you could then launch it from there.
Safe Mode has a DOS option also.
Have you tried Start/Run/Command?
You should also be able to create a startup disk, boot to
the A drive,
then C:.
What program is it?



David Grossman wrote:
> I'm coming out of lurking - with a problem.
>
> I'm trying to set up a legacy (DOS) program on a
Windows 95 laptop.
> MSDOS.SYS automatically loads up the GUI (that's
Windows). I want to
disable
> it (GUI=0) and then let the computer read the
autoexec.bat and load up the
> DOS program.
>
> However, MSDOS.SYS is a read-only system file, and I
cannot change it with
> ATTRIB.
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