From: "Matthias Paul" Organization: Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 15:11:48 +0100 Subject: Re: [Y2K] X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Message-ID: Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com On Sat, 01 Jan 2000 David Chard wrote: > I was running DR multiuser DOS v5.1 and this morning it rolled over to 2156. Novell stopped development of DR Multiuser DOS many years ago, but licensed it to three of its Master VARs: IMS Ltd, Concurrent Controls, and and company in in Australia (Datapaq Australasia???). Last time I visited them, Concurrent Controls (CCI) had CCI Multiuser DOS 7.22 available, but I don't know anything about their Y2K compliancy. IMS, however, evolved Multiuser DOS into REAL/32, a 32-bit real-time OS. If I remember correct, the current issue is 7.78 or so, and it is for sure Y2K compliant. They have alot of Y2K info regarding the different issues and migration paths on their web site. > and I am currently running MSDOS 6.2 to get me out of trouble. Well, if your application does not actually require the modular protected mode multi-user architecture of Multiuser DOS, you are free to use (single-user) DR-DOS 7.02+ to get out of your troubles. Some of the multi-user security also ran on single-user DR-DOS at times of DR DOS Panther and Novell DOS, so there is a change to easily reenable these features, if Caldera/Lineo would ship DR-DOS with these additional drivers and utilities (like XATTRIB etc.). BTW, the enhanced utilities in the DR-DOS portfolio (XDIR, XDEL, etc.) all have an undocumented switch /U:username, that would be fully functional when the multi-user security would be loaded... Matthias ------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthias Paul, Ubierstrasse 28, D-50321 Bruehl, Germany eMail: Web : http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html -------------------------------------------------------------------