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Article #11167Re: Looking for MS-DOS 5.0 Compatibility Tricks...
From: Jan Eri
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1991 17:31
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1991 17:31
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In article <1991Jun16.043650.7990@vpnet.chi.il.us>, mox@vpnet.chi.il.us (William Moxley) writes:
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|> I have several programs that will not work with the new version of MS-DOS.
|> I already tried the "setver" command but it doesn't help. Are their any
|> other tricks that I might try to make these programs run? Two programs that
|> I'm specifically having trouble with are Norton's Disk Cache and DoubleDos
|> V5.0 although their are several others... Thanks in advance
Are you sure DOS 5.0 is the only reason ? Norton's Disk Cache works
perfect with DOS 5.0 here.
Did you remember to reboot after issuing the SETVER command?
Jan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!ugle.unit.no!lise.unit.no!janeri From: janeri@Lise.Unit.NO (Jan Eri) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Looking for MS-DOS 5.0 Compatibility Tricks... Message-ID: <1991Jun17.173153.17151@ugle.unit.no> Date: 17 Jun 91 17:31:53 GMT References: <1991Jun16.043650.7990@vpnet.chi.il.us> Sender: news@ugle.unit.no Reply-To: janeri@lise.unit.no Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology Lines: 25