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Re: DOS 3.3 feature vaporware?

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From: Lee Fisher
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1988 07:33
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> esd@cbterra.att.com (Eric S. Deese) writes:
>
> dpz@athos.rutgers.edu (David P. Zimmerman) writes:
> > 
> > I was looking through my MS-DOS 3.30 manual and found a nifty feature
> > called "drivparm" that you can stick in your CONFIG.SYS file.
> > However, try as I might (and try as another DOS wizard here might),
> > all that I can get spit out at boot time is a complaint about
> > "drivparm" being an unrecognized command. Anybody get this to work,
> > or is this truly nifty feature a truly nifty vapor?
> 
> I have spent several hours with it also, as I thought I might have a
> use for it. Like yourself, DOS kept telling me that it didn't like
> the drivparm command. I tend to believe that it is "truly nifty vapor.

DRIVPARM does not work in MS-DOS v3.30.

There is a new release of the MS-DOS v3.30 "packaged product" called
v3.30A which has fixed this. It has been sent to manufacturing and
will be available soon. OEMs already have this update. If you have an
OEM version of DOS, contact them for availability of a fix. If you
have the "packaged product" version, call Microsoft at 206-882-8089
and tell them that you have this problem; they'll take your
name/address, and send you this update when it becomes available. 

-Lee
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From: leefi@microsoft.UUCP (Lee Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS 3.3 feature vaporware?
Message-ID: <1387@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 88 07:33:47 GMT
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Summary: DRIVPARM does not work in MS-DOS v3.30, it does in v3.30A