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From: keshava@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Sanjay Keshava)
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Subject: Re: Question about Compaq's version of DOS - 3.31
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Date: 4 Jul 90 02:44:18 GMT
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In article <1990Jul3.143237.11538@lth.se> d89os@efd.lth.se (Ola Sigurdson) writes:
>In article <36542@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, ccmax@eel.cs.ucla.edu (Max Kislik)
>writes:
>> I would like to know whether Compaq's dos 3.31 can be used on
>> other machines.  
>> Dos 3.31 can handle partitions of more than 32M.
>> I also want to know whether there are any known problems with it.
>> 
>Yep, the version (I havenn't got the version # here) of Norton Utilities 
>that I have won't run. Mostly I get "Cannot find directory" messages.

Compaq's DOS 3.31 will work on other machines.  A long time ago, I
tried it on my generic (DTK motherboard, WD disk controller) AT
compatible, and it worked flawlessly.  I've also seen it run on Everex
286 and 386 machines.

I don't know about the later versions, but the older Norton Utilities
would fail because they were not written to handle disks larger than
32MB.  I don't remember the details, but it had something to do with
larger FATs and directories.


                                               Sanjay
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