X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to opendos-bounces using -f X-Recipient: opendos AT delorie DOT com From: "bob klahn" To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: MS-DOS 6.22 Message-ID: Date: Sunday, 04 Oct 2009 03:40:00 -0500 X-Mailer: Internet Rex gateway (2.29) X-Fido-From: bob klahn, 1:124/311 X-Fido-To: MIKE TRIPP MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Declude-Sender: ccoky AT iglou DOT com [67.131.57.16] X-Declude-Spoolname: 98443532.eml X-Declude-RefID: X-Note: Please send abuse reports to abuse AT fewpb DOT net X-Declude-Note: Scanned by Declude 4.4.0 "http://www.declude.com/x-note.htm" X-Declude-Scan: Outgoing Score [9] at 12:21:35 on 02 Jan 2010 X-Declude-Tests: BADHEADERS [8], DYNHELO [2] X-Country-Chain: UNITED STATES->destination X-Declude-Code: 8010000e X-Declude-Recipcount: 1 Organization: The Electric and Water Plant Board of the City of Frankfort Kentucky X-Identity: 67.131.57.16 | | delorie.com Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Originally to: MIKE TRIPP MT> 01 Oct 09 22:16, bob klahn wrote to MIKE TRIPP: bk>> I have always found, if you have a bootable disk, you can just bk>> expand all the files to a single directory, and not bother with bk>> the floppies. MT> I've never tried it with 6.22, have you? I would guess MT> that worked for full verions, but even the retail boxed MT> 6.22 was an upgrade for existing DOS licenses and more MT> persnickety about seeking existing version, swapping of MT> disks and verifying of labels at multiple points in setup, MT> etc. I think they were trying new methods to make sure MT> that you didn't buy just the upgrade and have full MT> functionality. You know, it's been so long since I did an install of dos I don't remember. Mostly I have a CD with the dos subdirectory on it. I do an install of dos at the root level, often using the old Norton Disktools, and then just copy the subdirectory. BOB KLAHN bob DOT klahn AT sev DOT org http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn ... ¯ìûÔÔh·¤ ŽCþhanks for hanging up, dear. * Silver Xpress V4.5/P [Reg]