Mail Archives: opendos/2003/09/28/17:42:21
On 28 Sep 2003 at 19:08, Lindner-Thalmaessing AT t-online wrote:
> *DOS-version 4.22*??? Leonard Erickson objected (absolutely correct):
>
> > This is the first *I* have ever heard of a version
> > 4.22. The only 4.x versions I'd ever heard of before
> > were 4.00, which was a major disaster and 4.01 which
> > fixed the bugs that made 4.00 the disaster.
> > Would you be so kind as to type VER at a DOS prompt
> > and posted what it returns, along with a
> > translation?
>
> Sorry |-( *my fault*! My (German) version of MS-DOS is 6.22, not 4.22.
> Typing VER on my system returns "4DOS 5.50 DOS 6,22". As far as I
> know vs 6.22 is the last vs of MS-DOS, at least in Germany. My
> directory C:\DOS shows(vs# in time stamp): XCOPY.EXE 17.250
> A 31/05/1994 06:22:00 MOVE.EXE 18.613 A 31/05/1994
> 06:22:00
I think that IBM released a version 7 of PC-DOS. And the DOS
that underlies Win95 and Win 98 is a version 7.
> Nevertheless - I wonder but now have learned that there must be a lot
> of users still using and remembering much older DOS versions than me,
> and work on even more ancient computers. The 3-/4-versions were up to
> date before I became blind in 1991/92, and I worked with them as long
> I still could see.
I have a copy of PC-DOS 1.1. :-)
> Q 1: Is there no environment variable named COPYCMD in other 6.22-vs?
I can't check that until I get a chance to boot one of my
systems under DOS 5 & 6.
> Q 2: How differs the command line syntax of XCOPY in other than German
> vs?
Well, I posted the syntax of the versions I could check
easily. Checking others would require digging out old boot
disks.
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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at krypton dot rain dot com
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