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Like many of us, I am considering upgrading my home PC and all my work
PCs to DOS 5.  I have two questions.

Does the VDISK or whatever it's called that comes with MS DOS 5 support
large virtual drives?  DOS 4.01 was limited to only 4MB.  I'm hoping
DOS 5 will support drives up to 16MB.  Compaq DOS 3.31 supports large
drives.  I don't know if this is true for Compaq DOS 4.01, but Dell DOS
4.01 is limited to 4MB.

And speaking of Compaqs.  I have an ancient Compaq 386/16 that's running
Compaq DOS 3.31 and I have the Compaq 40MB tape drive.  It uses Compaq's
crummy TAPE utility.  I once backed up my disks onto the tape, then
reformatted my disk for DOS 4.01 (non-Compaq - generic Microsoft w/
genuine Microsoft labels on the diskettes).  When I tried to run the
Compaq TAPE program to restore the files, it told me I had an incorrect
DOS version and refused to run.  I reformatted for DOS 3.31 and went
back to the old ways of doing things.  

Will my old TAPE utility run with the new DOS 5 upgrade?

TIA,

Marshall
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