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From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: PRODIGY won't work with 4DOS... any suggestions?
Message-ID: <1990Oct4.221300.16189@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Date: 4 Oct 90 22:13:00 GMT
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In <1990Oct4.051442.7029@portia.Stanford.EDU> rstanton@portia.Stanford.EDU (Richard Stanton) writes:

>I've just received my free Prodigy startup kit, and have a problem.
>I use 4DOS as my primary DOS shell (currently at version 3.01a or 3.02).
>PRODIGY refuses to work under any circumstances with 4DOS, but is quite happy
>if I boot using COMMAND.COM instead.

Prodigy at one point admitted that they had a "Big Brother" mode to
silently both look at, and alter by downloading, your disk space. They
claimed this was to allow them to do updates of THEIR software.

It sounds like 4DOS may not tolerate such things, so Prodigy designed
its s/w to not run with it.

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