Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 05:28:22 -0800
From: "Marc D. Williams" <marcdw AT flash DOT net>
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Subject: Re: DR-DOS and WFW311
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On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 11:38:05PM +0000, Paul Wittry wrote:
> 
> I would like to run DR-DOS under WFW-3.11, and I am wondering which
> version of DR-DOS would be the best to use. I have read of the problems
> with fdisk in DR-DOS 7.02 and above, and also have concerns with memory
> management.
> 
> So, from the Guru's, which would be the best DR-DOS to run with WFW 3.11,
> and why? Should I stay with MSDOS 6.22, and why?
> 
I can't really say which one is better for use with WFW as I had
replaced DOS 6.22 with DR-DOS 7.x right after installing WFW.

Things seemed to work okay but I did suffer from one problem that
really never got fixed. Opening DOS boxes/programs would cause
a total lock-up of the system. It was usually a hit-n-miss kind of
thing. Having a box open up in full-screen was usually fine but
when starting in a window would freeze things up.
Sometimes starting in full-screen and then going to a window would
work but sometimes not.
This would happen whether the DOS box called command.com or 4dos.com.
I even tried different memory managers (emm386.exe, drdos's himem.sys
used alone, and DOS 6.22's himem.sys which I still had lying around).
I was using DR-DOS 7.02 and later added some of the 7.03 files that
were available for download.

After posting questions to a FIDO echo and this list and getting some
good ideas on what to try the problem persisted.
That was about a year or so ago on an AMD 386-40, 32MB. 
Could've been hardware-related but not sure. At the moment I'm DOS-less 
so I can't revisit this though I plan to once I get a 486 working.

I came to rely on some of DR-DOS's features so I never bothered to
reinstall MS-DOS for testing (and didn't think about being able to use
both OSes at the time).

-- 
>>ANIME SENSHI<<

Marc D. Williams
marcdw AT flash DOT net
http://www.oldskool.org/~tvdog/ -- DOS Internet & Tandy 1000
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Platform/8269/ -- Win3.x Makeover