Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!decwrl!mcnc!beguine!pelham!uchuck From: uchuck@pelham.med.unc.edu (Charles Bennett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 soon? Message-ID: <2473@beguine.UUCP> Date: 4 Feb 91 16:57:27 GMT References: <19770001@hpctdpa.HP.COM> <1991Feb1.222609.6564@val.com> Sender: usenet@beguine.UUCP Reply-To: uchuck@uncmed.med.unc.edu (Charles Bennett) Organization: UNC-CH School of Medicine Lines: 47 In article <1991Feb1.222609.6564@val.com> ben@val.com (Ben Thornton) writes: >rcm@hpctdpa.HP.COM (Rick Myers) writes: > >>/ hpctdpa:comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware / hh2@prism.gatech.EDU (HAAS) / 11:08 am Jan 25, 1991 / > >>> Again, for reference: IBM told me that saying DOS Version 4.01 was >>> an error. They say that it is still DOS 4.00, with the CSDs applied. >>> (Corrective Services Disks). It's apparently the public which use >>> the number 4.01 and 4.02 to indicate that they have applied the CSDs. > >>My DOS says "Microsoft MS-DOS 4.01" right on the master floppy disk >>label. I have never applied any 'CSDs'. My ver command responds with >>DOS 4.01. >Oh great, so now programmers will not know whether or not the DOS4 that >their programs run under will have the bugs fixed.... Great thinking >on IBM's part. > >>Rick >>rcm@hpctdpe.col.hp.com >-- >Ben Thornton packet: WD5HLS @ KB5PM Don't be so damn quick to criticize when you don't know what you are talking about!! IBM has included as one of the "fixes" for PC-DOS 4.0 a new command... "syslevel". This command goes much farther than the simple "ver" command. "Syslevel" gives the DOS version, the release date of that diskette, the CSD (Corrective Service Disk) or IFD (Internal Fix Disk) number that has been applied, and the release date of that diskette. In addition each CSD or IFD contains a text file for "bug" and "fix" info. One can trace the bugs and determine if the problem was ever addressed and when and how the fix was applied and which CSD of IFD needs to be used to correct the problem. It really is a much better way of tracking bugs and fixes than issuing 18 different versions of MS-DOS with the same "ver" = 4.01. I have found as many as 5 different dates on MS-DOS command.com. And ALL of them claim to be THE version 4.01. So tell me, which one is the most current, which one has what bugs fixed?????? Chuck Bennett INTERNET: uchuck@med.unc.edu Medical Sciences Teaching Labs BITNET: uchuck@unc CB# 7520 University of NC PHONE: 919-966-1134(w) Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7520