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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Legal to include Command.COM on disk of commercial s/ware
Message-ID: <1646@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 29 Aug 89 02:24:22 GMT
References: <8908262022.AA00807@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu>
Organization: Rick's Home-Grown UNIX; Portland, OR.
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ia4@CUNIXD.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Imran Anwar) writes:

<A friend of mine is developing a program for the IBM PC line but for it
<to be functional it has to have an uncorrupted Command.COM on the same
<disk.

Your friend is going to have to have the *user* place a copy of
COMMAND.COM on the disk. Not because of legal problems, but because
it won't work unless the disk has the *same version* of command.com
on it that the system is running.

I've tracked several instances of bizarre behavior on machines to 
people running disk with a different version of command.com than the
one the machine was booted with! 

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Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
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