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From: Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.net.au>
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Thanks Terry,

I thought there had to be a way.... I will try this tonight
(Australian night!).

Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> > I'm still investigating (sorry for not replying earlier) but it looks
> > like that is effectively the case.  Once a Win/DOS program hooks the
> > BIOS vector, all bets are off.  Unless:
> >
> >       - there a way to force Win/DOS to "un-hook" themselves?
> >       - there an INTx call or something that can reset the
> >         interrupt vector table to a "pristine" setate?
> >
> > I won't have time to look at this for about 2 weeks or so, until finals
> > are over.  However, one possibility would be to set some sort of "flag"
> > from fbsdboot to indicate that the BIOS is unavailable.
> 
> My suggestion would be to run the icon as "real mode".  I almost
> posted this last night, but didn't, because I was lacking the data
> you just supplied.
> 
> The magic incantation should be:
> 
>         Right-button
>           Properties
>             Memory
> 
> Thwen check the "run in real mode" (or similarly named) checkbox on the
> icon.
> 
>                                         Terry Lambert
>                                         terry@lambert.org
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.
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