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Hi!

9-ξΟΡ-2003 22:17 _daybrown AT hypertech DOT net (Day Brown) wrote to
opendos AT delorie DOT com:

>>      What and how I should test?
DB> I've seen it work on drdos 7 & the win 98 'reboot' to dos. Should I
DB> assume it works on all other dos versions still in use?

     I may test under MS-DOS 6.22. But if your program doesn't deal directly
with disks and doesn't touches OS internal structures and not uses
nondocumented tricks, it shouldn't have any troubles with MS-DOS 6.22 also.

DB> Seen it work on a 486. Should I assume it works on anything less, or is
DB> there so little left of the 386, I shouldnt worry.

     I have no 8086-80286 at hands.

DB> Should I bother with trying to setup a self extracting archive that
DB> would create a directory and install in it, or just make a .zip
DB> available assuming that anyone who still runs dos knows what to do?

     I myself prefer not deal with plain executables downloading, I prefer
download archives. And I prefer to unpack into directories, which I want.
Other peoples may heva other preferences.