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From: smsmith@hpuxa.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M. Smith)
Subject: Re: Which DOS should I use?
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ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib) writes:
>>the ONLY reason to have 4.x is drive partitioning.  It takes too much memory
>>and really adds very little to DOS 3.3.  If you can get Compaq DOS 3.31, it 
>>has all the joys of DOS 3.3 plus large partitions.  4dos won't help, it is
>
>Zenith DOS 3.3 Plus also has the above features,
>plus a lot of nonstandard Zenith stuff, eg. a 
>Norton-like file editor/undeleter called GDI,
                                          ^^^
>a low-level formatter called PREP, FDISK renamed
>to PART, etc. I don't know how well it would 
>work on a non-Zenith.

I believe it's called GDU.  It works great on a non-Zenith: In a
pinch last summer I used GDU on a NEC machine to find and eradicate
a virus (stoned).  Strangely enough, when I try to use it with
an earlier version of DOS, it comes back "WRONG DOS VERSION!" and
aborts, but when I tried to use it on my new computer just out of
curiosity, if worked fine--even though I have a LATER version of
DOS (4.01 instead of 3.3).

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