Mail Archives: opendos/1998/12/13/04:11:51
Dear Mr. Paul:
Howdy!
Regarding...
> On Tue, 08 Dec 1998 Richard Kanarek wrote:
>
> > When I attempted to FDISK my HD, I was surprised to receive an
> > "incorrect version" message from FDISK. A little investigating
> > turned up:
> > [...]
> You probably have mixed upo the files. The DR-DOS FDISK obviously
> does not contain any Microsoft copyright strings... ;-)
> In general, please have a look at the PATH setting in your
> environment, maybe it just points to the MSDOS directory. Try to
> run the DR-DOS FDISK by giving the full path to the files.
Quite plausable but how do you explain this:
Directory of my write-protected since purchased OpenDOS 7.01 disk:
--a--- 15,252 7-11-95 9:50a a:attrib.exe
--a--- 233 3-26-97 6:36p a:autoexec.bak
--a--- 237 3-26-97 6:59p a:autoexec.bat
--a--- 27,248 7-11-95 9:50a a:chkdsk.exe
--a--- 55,365 3-03-97 7:01a a:command.com
--a--- 189 3-26-97 6:50p a:config.bak
--a--- 190 3-26-97 6:59p a:config.sys
--a--- 14,336 3-03-97 7:01a a:country.sys
--a--- 20,522 7-11-95 9:50a a:debug.exe
--a--- 71,287 7-11-95 9:50a a:drvspace.bin
rsa-h- 0 3-03-97 5:52p a:ebd.sys
--a--- 103,655 2-27-97 7:01a a:edit.com
--a--- 59,128 12-31-95 9:50a a:fdisk.exe <-- Observe fdisk.EXE
not .COM!
--a--- 40,135 12-31-95 9:50a a:format.com
--a--- 14,573 3-03-97 7:01a a:himem.sys
rsa-h- 27,880 1-23-97 7:01a a:ibmbio.com
rsa-h- 30,081 1-23-97 7:01a a:ibmdos.com
rsa-h- 223,148 7-11-95 9:50a a:io.sys
--a--- 40,817 3-03-97 7:01a a:keyb.com
rsa-h- 9 3-03-97 5:52p a:msdos.sys <-- Notice the evil
Win95
style "msdos.sys"
file!
--a--- 21,737 3-03-97 7:01a a:nwcdex.exe
--a--- 120,320 7-11-95 9:50a a:regedit.exe
--a--- 134,738 12-31-95 9:50a a:scandisk.exe
--a--- 7,270 7-11-95 9:50a a:scandisk.ini
--a--- 18,202 3-03-97 7:01a a:setver.exe
--a--- 13,239 7-11-95 9:50a a:sys.com <-- And "sys.com" is
wrong too!
--a--- 76,496 7-11-95 9:50a a:uninstal.exe
total files 27 total bytes 1,136,287 disk free space 314,368
Also observe...
Caldera OpenDOS 7.01
Copyright (c) 1976, 1997 Caldera, Inc.
All rights reserved.
C:\OPENDOS>cd \temp
C:\TEMP>debug a:sys.com
AX=0000 BX=0000 CX=33B7 DX=0000 SP=FFFC BP=0000 SI=0000 DI=0000
DS=84AC ES=84AC SS=84AC CS=84AC IP=0100 NV UP EI PL NZ NA PO NC
84AC:0100 B84827 MOV AX,2748
-d 100,FFFF
84AC:0100 B8 48 27 05 0F 00 B1 04-D3 E8 8C D9 03 C1 8E D8
.H'.............
84AC:0110 8C 06 26 01 89 26 A6 02-BA 26 02 B4 1A CD 21 E8
..&..&...&....!.
<Snip>
84AC:17E0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 4D 53 2D 44
............MS-D
84AC:17F0 4F 53 20 56 65 72 73 69-6F 6E 20 37 20 28 43 29 OS Version
7 (C)
84AC:1800 43 6F 70 79 72 69 67 68-74 20 31 39 38 31 2D 31 Copyright
1981-1
84AC:1810 39 39 35 20 4D 69 63 72-6F 73 6F 66 74 20 43 6F 995
Microsoft Co
84AC:1820 72 70 20 4C 69 63 65 6E-73 65 64 20 4D 61 74 65 rp Licensed
Mate
84AC:1830 72 69 61 6C 20 2D 20 50-72 6F 70 65 72 74 79 20 rial -
Property
84AC:1840 6F 66 20 4D 69 63 72 6F-73 6F 66 74 20 41 6C 6C of
Microsoft All
84AC:1850 20 72 69 67 68 74 73 20-72 65 73 65 72 76 65 64 rights
reserved
84AC:1860 20 50 53 52 06 57 B8 00-51 CD 21 33 C9 8E C1 33
PSR.W..Q.!3...3
<Snip>
Do you have one of the OpenDos 7.01 floppy disks that were included with
the CDROM's? Have you checked it?
BTW, you were right about my being mixed up about COMMAND.COM on the
floppy disk. As I very dimly recall, I believe that I had assumed rather
than verified that COMMAND.COM on the floppy disk was MSDOS 7. It isn't;
it realy is OpenDOS. Sorry about that mistake!
Cordially,
Richard Kanarek
P.S. Happy holidays to all!
P.P.S. Take my advice as someone who had to endure Win95 for almost 5
minutes (give or take): Stick with (real) DOS! <g>
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