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[Ian Scott <mriscott AT yahoo.co.uk>]

>
>win c:\progra~1\wordview   
>
>this goes right into wordview 
>but first loads the desktop.  
>On my fastest  computer it 
>is only about 40 sec.
>

To run just your program in gui mode, edit win.ini and change the shell
entry to the name of the program to run. I have a program to do this, which
I run from a dos menu, so I can choose to run command.com so I get just a
commandline which I can run windows stuff from. I wrote this program, and am
happy to post it if anyone wants.


>> > Does anyone know how 
>to stop the Windows bmp 
>from coming onscreen while 
>booting into non-gui mode?  
>(Is there some file I can just 
>delete somewhere?).

As well as editting msdos.sys, you can just create a zero-sized logo.sys
file in the root of your C drive.

I did this on my BL laptop, which has no windows, but has a DOS drive
formatted via win98 format /s. This produced a drive with no msdos.sys, but
it still did the boot logo thing.