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From: jwas@PacBell.COM (Joe Wasik)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Re: DR-DOS
Message-ID: <7839@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 6 Aug 90 16:10:20 GMT
References: <1121@fang.dsto.oz> <8502@ur-cc.UUCP> <1990Aug5.015536.859@urz.unibas.ch>
Reply-To: jwas@PacBell.COM (Joe Wasik)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <1990Aug5.015536.859@urz.unibas.ch> ganter@urz.unibas.ch writes:
>DR-DOS is a 100% compatible OS to MS/PC-DOS (see above ...). 

I use DR-DOS (i.e. Digital Research DOS), am happy with its features, but
do not think the above statement is true.

The OS Systems mentioned are not 100% compatible.  There apparently are
differences in the way they do I/O to floppies.  When DR-DOS 3.41 and
installing paradox 3.0, the installation procedure would only grab the first
file on each floppy (there were 17 floppies), rather than copying all the
files that it needed.  According to Paradox support, they had seen problems
before with DR-DOS.

They recommended to install onto another MS-DOS system, then manually copy
the configured paradox to Dr-DOS.  I did, and it worked.

Since then I have occsionally had other problems reading from floppies.

Perhaps someone else knows exectly what was going on here.  Please post
to the net since many people are probably interested.

-- 
Joe Wasik - PacBell, 2600 Camino Ramon, 4e750, San Ramon, CA 94583  415-823-2422
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