MSCDEX
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MSCDEX or Microsoft MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions is a software program produced by Microsoft and included with MS-DOS 6.x and certain versions of Microsoft Windows.
It is a driver executable which allows DOS programs to recognize, read, and control CD-ROMs. This requires the previous loading of an appropriate CD-ROM device driver (example: oakcdrom.sys), usually from CONFIG.SYS. The program was used up until Windows 95 when it was replaced by the 32-bit version CDFS.
The final version of the program was 2.23.
[edit] External links
- Microsoft MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions 2.1
- History of Microsoft MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions
- Command-Line Switches for MSCDEX.EXE
- Examples of use in CONFIG.SYS
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