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To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
From: "Mark at Cross+Road's" <mark1 AT mich DOT com>
CC: <Bjorn DOT Simonsen AT c2i DOT net>
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 19:39:03 -0600
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Subject: Re: News flash:  Caldera DR-DOS 7.05 supports FAT32!
Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com


Hello,
    I followed the link and downloaded erperfre.exe at 1,889,/// bytes.  Is
that the correct file?  There wasn't but a windows program not able to be
run in dos mode?  I must have missed something I thought that their was a
command.com, and system files which were the only updates from the #703
version?
    Please correct me so I know what's missing and also I didn't find the
"overlay" file as also mentioned?
    Thanks for clearifying.
       Mark




On 2000-08-07 opendos AT delorie DOT com said:
   >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