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#PAR + Win 95 working !!!

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#188830From: Don NellSep 2, 1995 10:46 PM
To all, I'm not sure how many PAR users will benefit from this information, but I'll post it anyway. Like many of you, I installed Win ' 95 only to find that I couldn't use it with with the PAR drive and PARVCR.EXE. Well , there is way. I found that if you edit the PARVCR.INI file located in the Windows directory and manually write in the files you want to use under the [Recent File List] section, you can then open PARVCR while in Windows 95 and click on the files directly (dont use 'Open'). For example, my PARVCR.INI file looks like this. [Last Window Pos] Left=167 Top=274 Width=320 [Preferences] Rec Frames=300 Rec Prj=D:\DPS_PAR\REC_AD.PRJ Rec Ani=G:\REC_AB.ANI Rec Wav=D:\DPS_PAR\REC_AD.WAV Rec Name=recd_AAB [Recent File List] File1=G:\FIRST\PROJECT1.ANI File1=G:\FIRST\PROJECT2.ANI When I run PARVCR.EXE and click on 'File', I can click on either 'project1.ani' or 'project2.ani'. If you don't see the section [Recent File List], simply add it in. I have only tried this on one single computer, but I would be interested to know if this works for anyone else or if there is a better way. Let me know. Also, I don't have Razor Pro yet, but maybe a similar solution could be implemented using this technique as well. Thanks Don ( And I thought computers were going to make things easier )
#188857From: Rich MathewsSep 3, 1995 7:38 AM
I'm just trying to get my PAR DOS working with my CDROM. I can see the driver load but I think the Par is then loading and dumping my cdrom. I have Par DOS, 3DS and all working in W95 dos but without the CDROM! Any suggestions to this? Rich….
#188890From: Don NellSep 3, 1995 12:47 PM
Rich, I had a similar problem with my drives after installing Win 95. When Win 95 installed itself, it Rem 'd all my DOS CD ROM drivers in the AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files. In addition, it added the statement LASTDRIVE=F to my CONFIG.SYS file. I'm sure it had a good reason to do this, such as using its own CD ROM drivers instead of mine, but I simply un Rem 'd those DOS CD ROM drivers and changed LASTDRIVE=F to LASTDRIVE=Z (My last drive is actually my G: drive which is the PAR). Hope this helps Don