From: jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 23:36:44 -0500 (EST)
To: David Poehlman <poehlman AT clark DOT net>
Cc: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject: Re: [opendos] dialagues with open dos and other documentation issues.
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Hi David,
Some good news here, you don't need to run
opendos to run dosbook.exe.  It will run using dos 6.22.
There may even be command line switches, try dosbook -?.
On Tue, 4 Feb
1997, David
Poehlman wrote:

> Hi, I read that the documentation will be made available in some form that
> I've never heard of and wonder if it can also be made available in an
> independantly viewable form such as "dostext"?  Dosbook is really not
> adaquate when stacked up against a dos viewer with more powerfull
> functions and which is more friendly so it is not an alternative to the
> documentation platform availability.
> 
> I'd like info for instance on what happens if you put disk 1 into the
> drive and turn on the machine?  I need this info since my pc will not talk
> at that point.  I've tried making it talk modifying config.sys and
> autoexec.bat, but no go.  So, an installation guide would be helpfull.
> I'll try reading dosbook, but I'm not sure I'll find what I'm looking for.
> Any possitive feedback would be helpfull.
> is there a way to install dosbook without installing the whole package?
> I'd like to read it before I trash my machine again.
> 
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jude <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>