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Article #3786Re: FREEDOS: did someone see it? (was Re: ANNOUNCE: New Free-DOS
From: Charles Dye
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 15:30
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 15:30
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In article <4ff2im$b0h@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com>, jmrubin@ix.netcom.com (Joel Rubin) wrote: >Does anyone know why the DOS supplemental junk that you download from >ftp.microsoft.com have version checks on them? It's a pain to add stuff >to SETVER and reboot or to unexepack and hack the programs to disable >the version checks. (Does Microsoft want to encourage hacking of their >programs?) I don't think they've posted these programs for Win95 yet. Of course they don't. That's why they PKlite stuff, as well; the actual savings of space are minimal. As for Win95, most of the command-line utilities do appear on the CD; perhaps you have the floppy version? raster@indirect.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!globe.indirect.com!indirect From: raster@indirect.com (Charles Dye) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.lang.asm.x86,comp.lang.c,comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: FREEDOS: did someone see it? (was Re: ANNOUNCE: New Free-DOS Date: 9 Feb 1996 15:30:41 GMT Organization: Internet Direct, Inc. Message-ID: <4ffpb1$qk5@globe.indirect.com> References: <3jkaun$8rn@2hoog.vpro.nl> <3k8iue$1ncb@rs6a.wln.com> <4enb2g$711@spruce.citicorp.com> <621WV-sfN1B@oscar.north.de> <4evol1$lla@dfw.nkn.net> <4f8a2s$sgq@natasha.rmii.com> <1996Feb8.155359.10019@kbbs.org> <4ff2im$b0h@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: s4.abq-dialin2.hollyberry.com X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #3