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From: jamesb AT wam DOT umd DOT edu (James Jeffrey Benjamin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: OpenDOS
Date: 21 Jan 1997 00:19:23 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park, MD
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Gene Buckle (geneb AT web DOT wa DOT net) wrote:
: > >> print bogus error messages if something other than DOS were 
: > >detected, for
: > >> the sole purpose of forcing people to use MS products. Will this 
: > >still be
: > >If that's true then M$ are the biggest f*ers I've ever seen!! That's 
: > >an 
: > >outrage!
: > >
: > >> the case with OpenDOS?
: > >We'll change it... ;-))
: > Not what I meant.  It's not in the DOS sources - it's in Windows.  You'd
: > have to have an OpenWindows to fix it.
: > 

Hmm.. Well. The routine is certainly in Windows. But I'm sure somebody
will come out with a crack, er.. Upgrade to OPENDOS to mask it as MS-DOS.

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