Message-Id: <199705161336.JAA07340@delorie.com>
Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 08:36:32 -0500
From: "Jonathan E. Brickman" <brickman AT cjnetworks DOT com>
Reply-To: "Jonathan E. Brickman" <brickman AT cjnetworks DOT com>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Suggestion for OpenDOS web site
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So far there have been enough undocumented
procedures needed to get OD to perform basic
DOS tasks that I will not recommend OD for
a corporate LAN.  If I had a really good
search engine for problem solving, something
like the Novell tech pages, I would have
a lot more use for OD.  The following
are examples of things that need to go
in such a system:

Special settings to get Windows 3.1 and 3.11
and WFW to run reliably

Case-sensitivity issues and ramifications

Driver issues

Hardware compatibility issues (anybody know any?)

Networking issues (PNW, NetWare, NetBEUI, PC-NFS)

Memory configuration, how it differs from
MS DOS 6.22, how this affects DOS apps,
what are the workarounds

Right now, most of this knowledge seems
to exist almost exclusively in the
memories of experienced people.  Some
outdated information of this sort exists
on the Novell web site; however,
I am not going to recommend use of outdated
information to MIS departments!

Jonathan E. Brickman         River City Computing, Inc.            (913) 232-6663
http://www.cjnetworks.com/~rivercity                    brickman AT cjnetworks DOT com
It seems to me that men usually think more about carburetors, and women
think more about doors.  I think the world needs really good carburetors...and
really good doors.