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Re:The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 by jmspring on Friday September 28, 2018 @11:41PM (#18098596)
Once you started moving up the chain with Win3, etc, throw in config.ini and program.ini amongst others. So many painful memories or is that nostalgia.
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Re:The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 by stordoff on Saturday September 29, 2018 @12:41AM (#18098743)
I still remember copying win.ini (IIRC) to recover a friend's PC where it had somehow gone missing.
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Re:The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 by qwerty456127 on Saturday September 29, 2018 @05:14PM (#18102860)
BTW I have never actually installed (and never seen installation discs of) Windows before Windows 95 - we just copied it between PCs.
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Re:The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 by wyoung2 on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @07:18PM (#18126497)
> So many painful memories or is that nostalgia.

The Greek roots of “nostalgia” translate as “the pain of returning home,” so it’s a false dichotomy. :)

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/nostalgia

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Re:The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 by wirelessest on Saturday September 29, 2018 @10:00AM (#18100359)
Am I misremembering it as progman.ini or are those different files?
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