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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 17:25:06 +0000
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From: J P Morris <b52g AT usa DOT net>
Subject: Re: DR-DOS Newsgroup????
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At 23:59 18/03/98 -0800, you wrote:
>I would really like to know why nobody has tried to setup a newsgroup
>for DR-DOS.  It would really make troubleshooting so much easier.

I have absolutely no knowledge of how this is done, but it would be worth
asking DJ Delorie, as he has the comp.os.msdos.djgpp group, which seems
to be mirrored to a mailing list.  This kind of approach would probably work
quite well.

>We could even go as far as calling it OTHERDOS to include versions of
>DOS other than just MS.  My last test with DRDOS was great for a
>week---then crash freeze, crash etc.  Yet I STILL did not have to format
>or reformat my HD and I lost NO info.  Funny how flippantly gurus just
>tell people to "just reformat and re-install Win 95".

I used to work for a tech support department.  Some of the guys were just
inexperienced, some were weird, but a lot of the time they were doing it
for just a quick fix to get the customer off the line.

Occasionally they would tell the user what was going to happen to their disk
before they did it.  Eventually the boss found out how many people were being
sent the REBUILD helpsheets and they put a stop to it.

>  -Dean Dancey
>