David:
I ran the program xtgold from within win95 and
was able to change the attributes of msdos.sys
( trying from the msdos prompt or using the windows
Run program did not work) If you do not have access
to xtree gold, then you will have to try booting from
a floppy. (Make a boot disk from win98). Even with
booting from a floppy you are still faced with the double
whammy of hidden and system file attributes.. You cannot
do anything from the dos commands. If you have Norton
utilities, it might have a program that will let you change
attributes directly... If not you can run NU.EXE
Before running NU.EXE , at the dos prompt type LOCK
and accept that you can make changes to the hard drive..
This will permit you to change data on the hard drive.
Then run NU.EXE (one of Norton's programs.)
I ran NU.EXE and went to the root directory
section and found MSDOS.EXE and deleted the
hidden and system designators.. While there delete
the read only designator also.. Write your changes to
the C drive.
With those gone you should be able to edit the
msdos.exe file as you wish.
Wally
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:56:39 +0200 "David Grossman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
> 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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