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From: Jonathan.Bradshaw@thevoid.rn.com (Jonathan Bradshaw)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: DOS 5.00 - Release Notice and Features
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Date: 7 Jun 91 21:11:37 GMT
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I just received the DOS 5.00 release and features notice. So, maybe now would be 
a good time to talk about it. Since it will have an impact on Desqview users, 
here is what Microsoft says:

MS-DOS 5.0 FEATURE/BENEFIT SUMMARY

* Memory Saving Features

 DOS LoadHigh - DOS loads most of itself into the HMA on 286/386 machines
 UMB Support - Lets you move device drivers and TSRs up above 640k

* Ease of use features

 DOS Shell - New graphical, mouse driven shell
 Task Switcher - Allows more than one application to be active
 On-Line Help - Help for all DOS commands in on-line, just keystrokes away
 Full Screen Editor - New editor that works with keyboard or mouse
 Quick Format - Speedy format for hard drives and floppy disks
 DosKey - DOS command line history and macro-creation utility

* MS-DOS 5.0 Data recovery utilities

 Undelete - Lets you recover files you didn't mean to delete
 Unformat - Lets you recover all files on a floppy or hard disc

* Other MS-DOS 5.0 features

 QBasic - QuickBasic 4.5 interpreter included
 Large Disks - Handles disks larger than 32mb WITHOUT SHARE.EXE

* Technical Facts

 o Old version of DOS to be upgraded must be at least 2.11
 o Upgrade will work on any 8088, 8086 or 80x86
 o Supports network setup from server
 o will use 3.3MB of hard disc space (ed: Gee, just what we wanted!)
 o will load itself into UMB to save conventional memory
 o automaticly updates config.sys and autoexec.bat when installing
 o provides an uninstall feature
 o Task swapper enables switches between tasks with hot keys
 o Can load DOS high (UMB)
 o New versions of HIMEM.SYS, RAMDRIVE, SMARTDRIVE
 o Improvements to EMM386.EXE (ed: shouldn't that be .SYS?)
   - LIM 4.0 support, access to UMB via new DEVICEHIGH= and LOADHIGH=
 o New switches for MEM.EXE include
   - /P displays information on programs use of memory
   - /C displays usage of UMBs
 o Safe and reliable -- more than 7000 beta testers (ed: bug free? sure!)
 o Check README.TXT for obscure areas of compatibility (ed: obscure?)
 o Support for new 2.88MB floppy drives (ed: I want one!)
 o Delete tracking and unerase support
 o All commands have on-line help using "/?" option
 o ATTRIB now affects hidden and system files
 o DEL /P, prompt before deleting
 o DIR /s, recursive directory search
 o DIR /o, specify sort order
 o DIR /a, display files with selected attribute
 o Plus DIR now report total bytes used by listed files
 o FDISK, now deletes NON-DOS partitions
 o FORMAT, allows non-destructive RECOVERABLE quick format
 o RESTORE, restores backups from previous versions of DOS

o MS-DOS v5.0 with Windows 3.0 (ed: what about 3.1?)

 o Streamlined kernel, 5k smaller, SHARE.EXE no longer needed (6k savings)



Ok, so now, you've seen it... bigger files but takes less conventional memory.
Ship date is June 7th, I'll let you know when my copy comes.

Can Quarterdeck now tell us what they have up their sleaves?  With any luck, 
bigger windows!
 

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