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Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 12:09:16 -0800 (PST)
From: Gene Buckle <geneb AT web DOT wa DOT net>
To: "Maan M. Hamze" <mmhamze AT mail DOT utexas DOT edu>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: OpenDOS to be released next week!
In-Reply-To: <01bc0a78$e33536c0$01db5380@maan-m.-hamze>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.970125120626.13541I-100000@web.wa.net>
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> Finally, some more questions that I hope you can answer:
> 1.  Is there any support for Multi-Users like in Linux in addition to
> multi-tasking?

No.  When the sources are released however, I imagine someone will get
around to it. ;)

> 2.  Any thoughts about making OpenDOS as 32-bit protected OS environment?

Not that I know of.

> 3.  I have Win95/DOS 7 and I use 4DOS.  Concerning win95:  will I be able
> to start win95 after installing OpenDOS?

>      How does OpenDOS co-exist with win95?  No problems I hope!  Or should
> we have a new partition to boot using OpenDOS thus
>      making win95 inaccessible?
> 

OpenDOS cannot deal with Win95 long filenames that well.  See the README
file as to what those problems are. (nothing serious)

You'll have to set up a dual-boot system to use both Win95 and OpenDOS.

g.


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