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Date:	Sun, 9 Jul 2000 21:52:27 -0700
Subject:	Re: Advanced DOS for Beginners (was: Re: How to unsubscribe)
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From:	Robert W Moss <domanspc AT juno DOT com>
Reply-To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com

Try to get a copy of Partition Magic to do the Job.  
It does nondestructive partitioning, and can set 
several  active partitions for installation of different 
Operating systems.  Of course WIN98 is a 32bit FAT 
partition and all of your DOS's will have to be on 
16bit FAT partitions.  

DR DOS 7.02 is a step or two removed from Novell DOS 7.
Since you are in the USA you might try to get ahold of 
a book published by SAMS Publishing  in 1994. It was
authored by Jonathan Kamin and titled Novell DOS 7  
Unleashed.  ISBN 0-672-30328-0. This book goes into 
great detail on how to use Novell DOS7 and most of the 
stuff should be still current, or at least help give you some 
idea  of how to set up the system to your taste.

In the first paragraph of the introduction he says: 

"When Novell acquired Digital Research, it took on an 
awesome responsibility: keeping what was already the 
best DOS on the market at the technological cutting edge. 
And Novell has delivered."

"DR DOS was the first DOS to include multiple configurations, 
an integrated file-undeletion utility, hard-disk defragmenter, 
file-transfer utility, disk-compression utility, and on-line 
help system.  Novell DOS 7 provides a new and consistent 
interface for all these utilities, as well as the built-in text 
editor and system-setup utility. In addition, DR DOS has 
always had the most flexible command set -- another 
tradition carried on in Novell DOS 7. To top it all off, the 
system includes what may be the most advanced 
memory-management utilities available, and a true 
multi-tasking system."

[I think this really was when Bill Gates really got into the 
"Burn that other DOS at any cost.', mentality.  Not only 
did they have the audacity to put out a better DOS, but 
they even included Personal Network Software Package, 
and this was something he could not do. ]

I don't know if it is available in  any other languages or 
if it was sold overseas in english or another language.  
Possibly it would be available through Amazon.com or 
one of the old/used book sites.  I got several of my old 
computer books that way.

Awhile back there was a post about a Caldera Open Dos 
book with a CD ROM and I believe it included source 
code on the CD.   If whoever posted that one could resend 
the info including the ISBN number you could probably 
get it.

And no, whoever always asks, I don't have the text in ASCII code.

I also seem to remember someone mentioning checking at the 
Novell web site for some info which could possibly be left over 
from the days just before caldera took over the DOS business.

On Sun, 9 Jul 2000 19:51:31 -0400 (EDT) Paul O Bartlett
<bartlett AT smart DOT net> writes:
>     This afternoon I downloaded DR-DOS 7.02 from Lineo to start to 
> take a look at it.  Unless I overlooked something, I noticed that 
> the
> documentation was somewhere between skimpy and nonexistent, on that
> site at least.  However, I saved some old posts which have some URLs
> for some other sites which may have docs (I prefer to read the
> instructions before assembly), so I will take a look at them before 
> pestering people with a lot of questions.
> 
>     But I do have a couple of items up front.  It has been expressed 
> 
> on this list that DR-DOS 7.02 is preferable to 7.03 due to some bugs 
> 
> in the latter, which is why I downloaded 7.02.  But that directory 
> on Lineo also has a subdirectory with a group of updates, I presume 
> bug fixes.  (I downloaded them, too.)  Does anyone have any comments 
> 
> on the update files?
> 
>     At the moment I have a fairly large C: drive.  If a disk has 
> only a
> single partition on it, the old MS-DOS FDISK would in effect wipe 
> out
> existing files when partitioning it.  Does DR-DOS's FDISK do the 
> same? 
> I would suppose so.  But I do want to keep Win98 around, and it 
> would
> be a major pain to try to back up and then restore hundreds of MB of
> files.  Any ideas?  (My machine does have a 100MB-size Iomega 
> Zipdrive,
> but even so it would be a tedious operation, especially with the 
> need
> to make a new partition bootable if I want to be able to bring Win98
> back up.)
> 
>     Thanks in advance.
> 
> -- 
> Paul                             mailto:bartlett AT smart DOT net
> ..........................................................
> Paul O. Bartlett, P.O. Box 857, Vienna, VA 22183-0857, USA
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