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From: wg@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (Bill Gieske)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: DR DOS
Keywords: help
Message-ID: <7434@cbnewsm.ATT.COM>
Date: 9 Dec 89 16:22:26 GMT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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I recently purchased a PC that came with Digital Research's DOS clone, DR DOS,
version 3.41.  It apparently has a lot of DOS 4 features, including support
for hard disk partitions greater than 32Mb.  It's manual leaves a bit to one's
own imagination, or previous experience with other versions of DOS.

Has anyone had any experience with DR DOS?  I am debating ordering DOS 4.01
or DOS 4.1 (saw it for sale from one mail order house for $86).  I have seen
the recent articles on DOS 3 versus DOS 4, and will go DOS 4.  Amoung other
things, I want a single 40Mb partition.

In particular, I cannot find the magic to get WordPerfect's shell program
working when calling a batch file or when executing a single DOS command.  I
know that shell is not the problem, but don't know what is.  Any suggestions
would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Bill Gieske
att!alux2!wg