Mail Archives: opendos/1999/03/09/22:18:22
"..." <yesss AT escape DOT com> writes:
><< I've seen at least one instance of DR DOS FDISK
>creating a partition which MS-DOS could not read. [...]
>
><< DR-DOS 7.02 Key Features:
> * A genuine 100% compatible DOS >>
>
> --<http://www.calderathin.com/products/drdos/whatsnew.html>
>
>Clever. DR DOS 7.02 is genuinely 100% compatible
>with NovDOS 7, maybe? Apparently not MS DOS. ...
>99% sadder and 1% wiser, --Fisher
That's kind of a foolish claim. Even MS-DOS isn't always 100%
backward compatible with APIs and data structures of earlier
versions of MS-DOS. True 100% perfect compatibility would
require nothing short of piracy.
To be fair, I think the problem you're having isn't really with
DR DOS per se (the DR DOS kernel,) but with DRI's FDISK (an
associated utility program.) If I find some free time this week,
I'll try to recreate the problem, using the DR DOS FDISK program
on both DR DOS 7.02 and MS-DOS 6.22. If I can duplicate it, I'll
write out a nice detailed bug report for Caldera. Kinda hate to
do that, because I still haven't *paid* for Caldera's release of
DR DOS, but it's a fairly serious problem.
raster AT highfiber DOT com
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