🚀 go-pugleaf

IMHO, there are 2 ways to go with DOS right now -- either DR-DOS 6.0
or MS-DOS 3.30. A few hassles I've had with DR's offering have
annoyed me: "slow" floppy drives [why, BTW?]; problems with TaskMax
and my keyboard; others I forget now. For the rest, it's great,
and the disc cache utility impresses me greatly. 

The best thing about it is that it gives me everything I'd get from
MS-5 and *lots* more -- but it still seems to work fine with all
the "old" PD/freeware utils I've picked up along the way. No 
SETVER hacks, and none of the bitching I heard from my colleagues
when they moved from 3.30 to 5.0. Great with Windows 3.1, too.

BTW: I have a little utility which lets me swap between MS-3.3 and
DR-6.0 as I please [IO.SYS & MSDOS.SYS first in the root; IBMIO.COM
and IBMDOS.COM elsewhere; two boot sectors and a little boot sector
dropper program; a pair of CONFIG.SYSs to point to the requisite
COMMAND.COM; a REBOOT utility]. Interestingly, most of the cool
utils from DR-6.0 work fine under MS-3.30 [eg: SUPERPCK, UNDELETE
and EMM386.SYS]. Of course, my drive is partitioned into C, D, E and
F -- but that's how I like it, anyway.

Buy DR-DOS 6.0. I doubt you'll regret it. [Or ditch DOS altogether :-)].

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Paul Ducklin                                       duck@nuustak.csir.co.za

  CSIR Computer Virus Research Lab * Box 395 * Pretoria * 0001 S Africa