Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:10331 comp.os.msdos.misc:2449 comp.os.msdos.apps:2142 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!bronze!copper!rschmidt From: rschmidt@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (roy schmidt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps Subject: Re: PC Tools PCFORMAT & DOS 5.0 (was DOS 5.0 & QEMM-386 5.12) Summary: Cooperation to the hilt! Keywords: cross-license Message-ID: <1991Jun14.002829.13057@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Date: 14 Jun 91 00:28:29 GMT References: <1991Jun11.215901.22013@pinhead.pegasus.com> <1991Jun13.173116.143@pinhead.pegasus.com> Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 28 todd@pinhead.pegasus.com (Todd Ogasawara) writes: > [comments here on qemm deleted] > >I have run into one problem though. PC Tools 6.0 PCFORMAT does not work >under DOS 5.0. It reports "Wrong DOS version" when I try to run it. Does >anyone know if PCFORMAT in PC Tools 7.0 works under DOS 5.0? I am still >waiting for my upgrade to arrive. Other PC Tools 6.0 software seems to work >ok though (including COMPRESS). > And little wonder! I just received a flyer from Central Point announcing a cross-licensing agreement with Microsoft. MS is using CP's undelete, unformat, mirror, and format programs, and CP gets to use the "MS-DOS 5.0 look and feel" in their PC-Tools version 7.0! So if you want to use PC-FORMAT version 7.0, just use the format.com that came with your DOS 5.0 -- it's the same! Now I wonder if they managed to make PC-Cache work with Win3.0? And just what is a DOS 5.0 look and feel? Maybe we should ask Lotus for an interpretation. :-) -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roy Schmidt | #include Indiana University | /* They are _my_ thoughts, and you can't Graduate School of Business | have them, so there! */