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From: roelofs@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Ender Wiggin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Question about Compaq's version of DOS - 3.31
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Date: 3 Jul 90 20:14:49 GMT
Organization: University of Chicago
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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.
 
d89os@efd.lth.se (Ola Sigurdson) writes:

> 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.

But this problem is true of *any* version of DOS which creates partitions
greater than 32MB.  In particular, you'd get the same error running Compaq
3.31 on a Compaq.  I believe Norton 4.5 fixes this problem (for both DOS
3.31 and 4.0).

To answer the original poster, I've seen Compaq 3.31 running on a Toshiba
386 laptop with no problems (40MB partition).