RE: IBM PC LAN Program Version 1.34 and DOS compatibility

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From: KIMWAH
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 02:36

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I have encountered the similar problem back in my old shop.  Just like you, we h
ave a wide variety of PCs from different vendors and each of them run their own
version of MSDOS.

What we (the technical support group) believe is that the various MSDOS is at le
ast 99% compatible with the IBM PCDOS.
You should not encounter major problems runninf the normal application software
unless you are making use of some undocumented features to write your own progra
ms.

We have a simple bypass to the problem.  We did a simple surgery to the NET.COM
program to make it skip the checking of DOS version.  This can be done by using
the DEBUG commands and look up for the interrupt call of the DOS version checkin
g.

We also did the same thing to the LAN Support program (v1.01,v1.02) to make it r
un on the older DOS 3.1.
You make want to try this out.

Poh Kim Wah
Senior Data Centre Planning Specialist
National Computer Board
Republic of Singapore

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Subject: RE: IBM PC LAN Program Version 1.34 and DOS compatibility
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