Mail Archives: opendos/2000/01/11/12:38:49
On Sat, 01 Jan 2000 David Chard wrote:
> I was running DR multiuser DOS v5.1 and this morning it rolled over to 2156.
Novell stopped development of DR Multiuser DOS many years ago, but
licensed it to three of its Master VARs: IMS Ltd, Concurrent Controls,
and and company in in Australia (Datapaq Australasia???). Last time I
visited them, Concurrent Controls (CCI) had CCI Multiuser DOS 7.22
available, but I don't know anything about their Y2K compliancy. IMS,
however, evolved Multiuser DOS into REAL/32, a 32-bit real-time OS.
If I remember correct, the current issue is 7.78 or so, and it is for
sure Y2K compliant. They have alot of Y2K info regarding the
different issues and migration paths on their web site.
> and I am currently running MSDOS 6.2 to get me out of trouble.
Well, if your application does not actually require the modular
protected mode multi-user architecture of Multiuser DOS, you are free
to use (single-user) DR-DOS 7.02+ to get out of your troubles.
Some of the multi-user security also ran on single-user DR-DOS at
times of DR DOS Panther and Novell DOS, so there is a change to easily
reenable these features, if Caldera/Lineo would ship DR-DOS with
these additional drivers and utilities (like XATTRIB etc.). BTW,
the enhanced utilities in the DR-DOS portfolio (XDIR, XDEL, etc.)
all have an undocumented switch /U:username, that would be fully
functional when the multi-user security would be loaded...
Matthias
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