Re: FREEDOS: did someone see it? (was Re: ANNOUNCE: New Free-DOS

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From: Raymond Chen
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 17:05

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On 9 Feb 1996 09:02:14 GMT, jmrubin@ix.netcom.com (Joel Rubin) wrote:
>Does anyone know why the DOS supplemental junk that you download from 
>ftp.microsoft.com have version checks on them?

Because the mechanism for including language-sensitive data changed
from version to version.  (Language-sensitive data = French vs.
English vs. German, etc.)

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From: raymondc@microsoft.com (Raymond Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.lang.asm.x86,comp.lang.c,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: FREEDOS: did someone see it? (was Re: ANNOUNCE: New Free-DOS
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 17:05:33 GMT
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