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Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 01:09:54 -0500
From: "Glenn E. Davis" <gedavis AT eos DOT ncsu DOT edu>
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Subject: OD7.02B - Should I upgrade to it?
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Ok... here's the deal:

I'm currently using 7.01 to a fairly good degree of success. I've had a
bunch of problems with my CDROM with it so I had to switch back to msdex
(M$-DOS 6.22) from nwcdex. This helped with most of my problems with the
8x I have. So, were any improvements made with nwcdex in OD7.02? Any
problems created? Also has CDROM caching supported in nwcache? Have any
of the disk utilities improved (i.e. speed)... I've had problems with
small files slowing my disk access times down a bunch which didn't occur
with M$-DOS 6.22. So basically... does the diskopt and chkdsk utilities
have improvements in speed? I've also had problems with using M$'s
interlink/interserver program with OD7.01 installed on both computers
(i.e. the filenames/attributes are all garbled up and
unusuable/unreadable across the null modem link). These problems don't
occur when the slave computer is running M$-DOS 6.2 or 6.22 but when the
slave is running OD7.01... that's when the garbled directory listings
appear. I really need to use a master/slave setup for my laptop and I
hate using FILELINK... so is this problem known and is there a way to
fix it and/or has it been fixed in 7.02?

Also has stacker been improved in 7.02 from 7.01? I absolutely need
stacker on my laptop and if the speed/usefulness has been improved...
I'll probably switched.

Finally... for normal game use and an occasional excursion into
win3.1... has any significant improvements been made to the memmory
manager(s) and DPMI/DPMS software? Any significant problems occuring in
this beta release?

Any help is appreciated.

Glenn Davis
gedavis AT eos DOT ncsu DOT edu