Message-Id: Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 10:45:06 +0000 From: Matthias Paul To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: OD7.02B - Should I upgrade to it? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Precedence: bulk [part 3/2+1] ... >Any significant problems occuring in this beta release? No, but if you have problems after the update, please try: - YEAR2000=OFF (for problems with QEMM, SCSI drivers, NICs and setups, virus checkers). - SWITCHES=/L (if your batchjobs or applications do not correctly retrieve the environment, and you have used CONFIG.SYS SET= before) - SWITCHES=/Q and SCROLLOCK=off (maybe COMMAND /F) for autark systems, that need to reboot without user interaction. Two kinds of incompatibilities are known: - QEMM s DOS-UP does not work with COD 7.02 due to the new FILESHIGH/FCBSHIGH commands. COD 7.02 s memory layout of handles had to slightly change internally to workaround bugs in Windows 3.xx (This is no problem for MS-DOS, since it cannot loadhigh handles). Probably there will be a patch to re-enable DOS-UP, which in the same turn disables Windows in conjunction with FILESHIGH. At the moment, just use OpenDOS loadhigh options instead. - Problems with the changed kernel version number, if utilities are hard-wired to Novell DOS 7. There is a patch to set back the BDOS version (just change IBMDOS.COM file offset +0Ah from 72h to 72h), but this will break the SHARE that ships with COD 7.02. Please report any such problem to Caldera , but also contact your dealer for an update of the software you re using. Matthias ------------------------------------------------------------ Matthias Paul eMail: Web: http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html