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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 04:40:18 -0600
From: burke <burke6337 AT yahoo DOT com>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Novell DOS 7.0, DrDos 7.03
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> Maybe there is someone on this list that can tell me if there is a
> patch for Novell DOS 7.0, as I am sure it has some Y2K problem that
> shows itselfs as

> I did look to DR-DOS 7.03, however it seems I can not get an update,
> but only a full pack of 5 or 10 users.... Well, I am not planning to
> buy a 5-user pack as I only need 1 (or 2 if I would replace MacroSof
> DOS). Maybe I just should move to PC-DOS.

	I'm still confused about DrDos 7.03.  I saw the same thing you did
about licenses, but downloaded it anyway.  According to the included doc
files, they've solved the Y2K problems, among others.  

	I don't think they ever did put in background serial port support,
though.  I called Novell about that, not too long after they released
Novell DOS 7, but they didn't have any intention of improving the
background serial port operations.  If they had, I think they would have
taken the lead in DOS.  The people who switched to it raved about it,
compared against windows.

	In the license agreement included in the package it seems like a pretty
standard shareware license, for single use at home.  

	"The evaluation period for use by or on behalf of a commercial 
	entity is limited to 90	days; evaluation use by others is not 
	subject to this 90 day limit but is still limited to a 
	reasonable period."

	The only reason I haven't gone ahead with the install is that I can't
decide whether or not it's crippleware.  If it is, then I don't want it
as an OS. :)

	I'm hoping someone on this list can tell me whether 7.03 is suddenly
going to stop working one day for lack of a license.  

	I can get along with DrDos 6 on the old machine for a while, I suppose.
 It is getting old, though, as is the graphics card.  I've casually been
looking for another graphics card, and I've got an old 386 motherboard I
can go back to when the 586 fails, but I'd really like to be able to
move all that onto the modern architecture.

> Maybe I just should move to PC-DOS.

	I've never used PC-DOS.  Is it anywhere near as good as DrDos 6 was?

					Paul Baker

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