Date:	Wed, 03 Jun 1998 13:06:38 +0100
From:	Matthias Paul <PAUL-MA AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Subject:	Re: Bugs Getting Too Thick...
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Reply-to:	Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
Message-id:	<D17A05105C@reze-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de>
Organization:	Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen

On Wed, 03 Jun 1998 Dean Dancey complained:

> [...]
> Is there any sign that Caldera is planning REAL bug fixes, or are 
> tehy going to let us all fry??? 

I know they are working very hard on these and other issues, and 
there will sure be major improvements in future releases, even though 
they don t have a few hundred engineers working on the operating 
system... ;-) So please stand by... 

Personally I am quite happy even with the current status of DR-DOS. 
It s more stable than Novell DOS 7, has alot of new usability 
features (as a matter of the fact, most people don t see them, as 
long as everything is in good condition), and most of the 
compatibility issues (e.g. QEMM, WIN) introduced by new features such 
as YEAR2000 or FILESHIGH/FCBSHIGH can be worked around quite easily 
(though both mentioned examples are clearly caused by limitations in 
other software and not by bugs in DR-DOS) or are only temporary 
problems (e.g. to load COMMAND.COM in HMA). 

However, I think there should be more FAQs and comprehensive trouble 
shooting documentation to help common users. Maybe someone would like 
to compile and keep up to date what we re discussing in these mailling
lists?

 Matthias


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