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Message-Id: <199712240238.SAA20862@f132.hotmail.com>
From: "Chris Wilson" <chrisperrywilson AT hotmail DOT com>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Version Madness
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 18:38:37 PST


>From: theo AT ccnet3 DOT ccnet DOT com
>
>When I first installed OpenDos, I discovered, to no one's surprise, 
that
>lots and lots and lots of programs written for MSDOS 6.xx complain that
>OpenDos 7 is the wrong version of dos.
>
>Is there any way around tediously entering dozens and dozens of program
>s in the file used by setver, to inform the program that it has the
>right version of dos?
>
>I assume the most efficient thing to do is to tell all programs that
>opendos is really msdos 6.22.
>
SETVER has an undocumented switch that allows you to set a global 
version. For instance, to tell all programs that you are using DOS 6.22, 
you would type:
SETVER /G 6.22
I hope this helps!

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