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Date:	Thu, 24 Jan 2002 21:33:09 PST7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Pinball.Sys (was: HPFS SCSI on Windows)

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Steve Carter wrote:
>
> subj. was: Re: SCOUG-Help: Re: HPFS SCSI on Windows ?
>
> There's a rather recent file on Hobbes in
> /pub/os2/util/disk called:
> HPFS_W2K.ZIP 17K dated 2001/12/10
> that claims to _patch_ pinball.sys for use on win2K.
> Might work on NT4 SP5/6 also, but I dunno.
> {I have NOT used it -- no win2K here.}

And our resident pinball.sys expert also had this to say (don't know why
he sent it to me instead of this list):
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Under Windoze, the file-type .reg is registered to the
registry editor program. If you create a mini registry
snippet of the right format, name it .reg, and simply try
to execute it, the 'doze REGEDIT.EXE utility will try to
update the registry from the contents of the .reg file.

In our case, you can automate a potentially
complicated/unfamiliar updating process by creating
this file for installing pinball.sys and never have to
worry about getting it wrong.

Somewhere in the references is such a .reg file (or
more than one) and I presume it works as advertised
(I've lost the original message thread). I'd start with
(the stuff from) Hobbes.

There is conflicting information about whether
Pinball.sys works in win2K. There is a file on Hobbes
claiming to work -- the installation process is only
slightly different from that for NT4.

Alternatively, once you've edited a few registry entries,
the process becomes clear and the manual entry
process is no longer so intimidating. I first had to do
this when we got banned from Napster. Manually editing
the registry was the only way to get un-banned.
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