*been reading*..Joe, Joe, Joe..*grin*...you have not been reading my plaintive threads over the months..I am NOT a Win95 kinda guy..yet...I am the guy with the gerbils and the steam backup running Win3.1..(maybe that will change soon)..I have a TOTAL of 640mg on my HD...and seldom more that 15-25 mgs free on any partition at any one time..so I guess I will NOT be installing the DOS version right now..(reading the comments of John & Dick, I will probably just tinker a bit and wait..both for more ***POWER** and for newer program configurations and availability...but I DO appreciate all the answers from Joe, Dick & John, and I have a bit better grasp of what it requires now...