Mail Archives: opendos/2002/03/19/16:18:12
On 2002-03-19, "Angela" <pe1biv AT ieee DOT org> wrote:
> Maybe there is someone on this list that can tell me if there is
> a patch for Novell DOS 7.0, as I am sure it has some Y2K problem
> that shows itselfs as often not having the date advance. The RTC
> advances, but as DOS uses it's own counter to calculate the day,
> as it needed to do in the Stone Age, the RTC is only used to set
> the time and date for DOS as it starts. The counter neatly advances
> through the day, but then forgets to increment the day-counter at
> 00:00 hour.
There is no patch for Novell DOS 7, but I am not aware of any real
Y2K problems in Novell DOS, except for missing special treatment
of two digit years, but this is only a cosmetical issue, no problem
in the date advancing code.
Most Y2K bugs are usually buried in the RTC hardware or the ROM-BIOS
code, not in the DOS kernel, and all that DOS can do to work around
them is install a special filter on top of the corresponding INT 15h
functions. This was implemented with DR-DOS 7.02+ and (in a quite
different way) in PC DOS 2000.
However, this code does not correct a bug in DOS, but one in the
BIOS, and you can achieve the same by installing an external Y2K
driver, which are available for free from many places.
If you tell me which *specific* counter you mean exactly (there
are several), I could give you a more definite answer, as I have
the sources here.
Is anyone else observing Y2K bugs in Novell DOS?
> I did look to DR-DOS 7.03, however it seems I can not get an
> update, but only a full pack of 5 or 10 users.... Well, I am
> not planning to buy a 5-user pack as I only need 1 (or 2 if
> I would replace MacroSof DOS). Maybe I just should move to PC-DOS.
Of course, PC DOS 2000 is available from IBM as a retail product,
and it is a good and reliable product, definitely much better than
MS-DOS 6.22. However, it lacks many of the more advanced features
found in DR-DOS... And if you want to replace Microsoft DOS,
as you write, PC DOS is no option, as it is based on MS-DOS
as well.
At least recently, you could still buy DR-DOS in single quantity
from Caldera (not Lineo) and LinuxLand (Germany), please have
a look there.
However, as far as I have been told from various sources,
DR-DOS 7.03 is meanwhile free for personal non-profit use.
I have got the impression that Lineo makes a case-by-case
decision when being approached by non-profit or educational
organizations, and I suggest you simply contact and ask them -
and report back here so we all get a better picture.
Otherwise, you´re right, Lineo *sells* DR-DOS only in
quantities five and up.
You can also go out and search for a book "DR-DOS Complete",
which includes either DR-DOS 7.02 or 7.03 as well.
If you compare the price for DR-DOS 7.03 with a single PC DOS 2000
license, even a five user license might not be /that/ bad, at
least if you need two licenses.
> Well, I have the idea that getting of this OpenDOS list is the
> only way of getting rid of the only thing I have seen so far on
> this list; SPAM. Nice that Delorie promotes this list as
> "antispam".....
Then you have not been around here for a very long time.
So, welcome! :-)
In the past more than five years of existance of this mailing
list, we´ve had only a few occasions of SPAM in this list
(maybe 30 in total?) and if you search the backlogs of this
list (many many megabytes of worth!) you´ll find that we have
had many very high level discussions taking place inhere,
although the list is rather silent these days.
Nonetheless, I too would like to see a better SPAM filter
as SPAM as increased recently. But mind that this list is
ran by DJ Delorie´s personal resources, and we should be
very thankful that he managed to make this a reliable place
for DR-DOS related discussions over all these years.
Greetings,
Matthias
BTW. What´s your full name, please? We prefer full names in this forum...
--
<mailto:Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>; <mailto:mpaul AT drdos DOT org>
http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html; http://mpaul.drdos.org
- Raw text -