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Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 08:41:28 -0500
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Subject: Re: Seeking good home for DRDOS 6.0 in box, but used
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I'm just now perusing that directory, and while old versions of DR-DOS are 
there, not ALL of these old versions are there; except for the Caldera 
versions, the ZIP files only contain the kernel and sys.com; none of the 
other utilities needed for daily use (FDISK, FORMAT, etc) are there.

> From:          "Glenn McCorkle" <glennmcc AT cisnet DOT com>
> Date:          Fri, 26 May 2000 23:57:11 -0500
>  In case you didn't know...
> All of the old versions of DR-DOS (including the kernel files for 6.0),
> are still available for D/L from Lineo.
> 
>  To refresh everyone's memory, this is a repost of my message to this
> list dated Thu, 09 Mar 2000
> 
> ---begin repost---
> Original-Subject: future of Dr-DOS
> 
>  Yes, let's hope that they do decide to GPL the SRC code.
> (including all of the utilities)
> In the mean time, here's what's still available for download from Lineo.
> 
> Directory listing of ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/devsup/drdos/
>   24549 Oct 12 23:34 diskcopy.com
> 6212696 Oct 12 23:34 dr702.exe
> 6243908 Oct 12 23:34 dr703.exe
>   61732 Oct 12 23:34 drdos331.zip
>   62658 Oct 12 23:34 drdos332.zip
>   62807 Oct 12 23:34 drdos333.zip
>   61143 Oct 12 23:34 drdos334.zip
>   61488 Oct 12 23:34 drdos335.zip
>   62506 Oct 12 23:34 drdos340.zip
>   64666 Oct 12 23:34 drdos341.zip
>   68781 Oct 12 23:34 drdos341b.zip
>   64868 Oct 12 23:34 drdos341t.zip
>   69352 Oct 12 23:34 drdos50.zip
>   70687 Oct 12 23:34 drdos50b2.zip
>   70042 Oct 12 23:34 drdos50b3.zip
>   80838 Oct 12 23:34 drdos60.zip
>   87628 Oct 12 23:34 novldos7.zip
>   85387 Oct 12 23:34 novldos7b3.zip
> 6007761 Oct 12 23:34 od701.exe
> 
>  In addition, I have the SRC code for....
> IBMBIO.COM, IBMDOS.COM and COMMAND.COM (OpenDos v7.01)
> (the license agreement allows for redistribution of the unaltered zip file)
> If anyone would like a copy of dossrc.zip
> Just say the word and I'll eMail it to you as soon as possible.
> 
> On Thu, 9 Mar 2000 18:34:43 -0500 (EST), Matthew W. Miller wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Florian Xaver wrote:
> 
> >> Lyle Ball (Vice President, Marketing Communications of Lineo) wrote me an
> >> interesting mail about the future of Dr-DOS. Please look at
> >> www.freedos.org
> 
> > [ namely, that they are ceasing development, of course ]
> 
> > All right, everyone start chanting, "GPL!  GPL!  GPL!"
> 
> > --
> > Matthew W. Miller -- mattm AT infinet DOT com
> 
> ---end repost---
> 
>  I've just now checked it..... (it's all still there)
> 
> On Fri, 26 May 2000 20:35:07 -0400, Chad Fernandez wrote:
> 
> > 5/26/00 8:28:25 PM
> 
> > Hello,
> 
> > I have a used retail box of DRDOS 6.0 on 3.5" floppies.  I bought it used off
> of
> > Ebay a year or so ago, but don't want it anymore.  So I
> > thought I would offer it here, for the cost of shipping.  I am in the US, so
> if
> > you are overseas it might be expensive or extremely slow in
> > getting to you.
> 
> > Chad Fernandez
> > Michigan, USA
> 
> -- 
> Glenn McCorkle glennmcc AT cisnet DOT com North Jackson, Ohio, USA
> DOS prog. for QV cameras http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/qvplay.html
> Other stuff http://public.webbox.com/glennmcc1974 AT webbox DOT com/
>             Arachne, The Web Browser for DOS
>    Open the 'DOOR' to the WWW. Keep the 'windows' closed.
>       http://arachne.browser.org/ http://arachne.cz/
> 
>