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Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 05:36:19 +0200
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Subject: Re: News flash:  Caldera DR-DOS 7.05 supports FAT32!
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On 29 Jul 00 at 12:49, Charles Dye wrote:

> http://www.ontrack.com/freesoftware/ERPERFRE.exe

Interesting, I downloaded the above, booted just fine. But I also
downloaded a keyboard definition file from the above site, link right
there on  <http://www.ontrack.com/freesoftware/>, said to apply this 
to the above package.  So I got NORWAY.EXE, created a second floppy 
and ran the it.  It copied the language files all right, then 
prompted to owerwrite current config files with new ones.  I said 
yes. Here is the result:

#  CONFIG. SYS
DEVICE=A:\EMM386.EXE
DEVICE=A:\ONTRACKD.SYS
DEVICE=A:\DRFAT32.SYS /X
LASTDRIVE=Z
COUNTRY=047, 865, A:\COUNTRY.SYS 

#  AUTOEXEC.BAT
@echo off
rem a:\xbios /P- /Z /I /M 
a:\drfat32 /m:120 > NUL
KEYB NO, 865
Call er

But the mentioned  DRFAT32.SYS and  DRFAT32.exe (?or com?), 
not included. Neither was emm386.exe or ONTRACKD.SYS . 
Thus the new config fails to load the Easyrec program (doesn't set up
a ram drive either as you can see.  I take this to mean Ontrack use 
Dr-DOS for one or more other products as well,  which probably also 
include the mentioned DRFAT32  files. Question is which other 
product(s)t?  I haven't explored,  but curios if anyone knows.... 

Speaking of which, FAT 32 ...and rumors....  back in April, some 
posted to comp.os.msdos.misc,  saying:

> The lastest version of PC DOS is 2000 (7.0 revision 1),
> it doesn't support FAT32.
> I've contacted the developers of PC DOS, that the answer:
>
> [...]
> We are investigating extending PC DOS to support larger partitions 
> and all  of the available space on large hard drives.  Full PC DOS 
> support will not  be available until later this year. We will be 
> looking for help in testing  a beta version.  When I have more 
> information on this beta I will contact  you to see if you would be 
> interested in helping us test this support,   probably after 
> July. [...]


All the best,
Bjorn