DOS 7.1 and Win3.1

Sorry if this is old business, but I'm not a regular to the DOS forum [but I SHOULD be :-) ]:

Anyone know about something that allows the underlying DOS of Win95/98 to support running Win 3.1? I understand it doesn't quite do so without some kind of help [presumably a TSR.] This also may be related to a patch to allow DR-DOS to run Win95/98 which apparently for the want of something inside of a small TSR it cannot.

On a related note, anyone know anything about the inability to set a permanent swap file, alleging that the partition isn't Int 13h compliant? And what triggers this and what to do about it?

As a stab in the dark, could any of these be fixed by lifting some of the files from IBM's captive-within-OS/2 version of Win 3.1? If so, what would be the minimum complement of files to try. [I mention this because I heard that IBM recompiled all of Win 3.1 to make it more optimal for OS/2 instead of DOS to be underneath it; I would presume that this does not mean it's hopelessly incompatible with DOS, rather that some files have to be used as a group, etc.]

Any comments on this appreciated

cjl

See this thread, especially the last item inWindows 3.1 and Windows 95. That should work for normal Windows.

I don't know if IBM has made the version you have incompatible with DOS. However, if you have an IBM operatingsystem, you might consider a Ramdrive. Your IBM operating system probably has an equivalent to this.

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