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From: william@syacus.acus.oz (William Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: messy-DOS (c)right dates ?
Keywords: Apricot, MDDOS, PCDOS, ahs, help aarrhg
Message-ID: <1099@syacus.acus.oz>
Date: 5 Oct 90 18:15:28 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Australian Centre for Unisys Software, Sydney
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On an MS-DOS system(?) ... does the date that MD-DOS seems to reoprt
mean anything ?  Or is it as I suspect a product of the latest BIOS
date ?

I have two /things/ purporting to be (legitimate) MS-DOS 3.10 but with
different BIOS date (Feb '85 and Oct '85).  With differing BIOS version
numbers: 2.7 and 3.1.1.

NOW common sense would say that "lateris better", nee ?  Oohh no! Others'
PC/MS-DOS utiltiies (PRINT, DEBUG, etc.) work with the 2.7 version ... but 
not withe the 3.1.1 version.  *AND* even the COMMAND.COM-s fail on the

    FC COMMAND.27 COMMAND.311 /B

command.  (Infact the earlier version is 22,677 vs. 23,210 bytes).

Can anyone help ... machine is Apricot PC

Thanks,
 
William Mason : william@syacus.oz.au : ACUS r+D : Sydney : OZ