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From: 6600prao@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Parik Rao)
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Subject: Re: MS-DOS 5.0
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Date: 18 May 91 06:32:34 GMT
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 Because then 4DOS would stagnate under MicroSoft's hands, get a GUI from hell,
and eventually turn into 0.4DOS... anyways, the installation should make a
copy of your old config.sys & autoexec.bat files >somewhere<, hunt around your
drive a bit.  At the very least, you should backup your system before
installing a new dos (esp a beta)!!
 
Re: comments... 

DOS can optionally turn your 640-1024k area into UMB and the first 64k of
extended ram for the dos kernal (himem.sys or qemm/etc must be used of course).
This may wreak havoc with 4DOS, I don't know.  Its very easy to get around
of course, just let QEMM/last-byte/etc load your drivers and so forth high,
let DOS load itself into first 64k of extended (but that'll shrink DV space),
and 4DOS will find the xms area to swap to.

Re: help, rename the DOS help.exe to something else, like "DOSHELP.EXE".  You
don't wanna get rid of it, some of those DOS commands can get pretty arcane. :)

Finally, 4DOS v4.0 is due out in the ?? future, beta-tester positions are being
accepted at the 4DOS BBS (just look in the manual, don't email me).  I don't
think they're looking for heavy-4DOS users; rather towards the novicial end.


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