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From: bb16@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Bostater)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: MSDOS 5.0 compatible with 4DOS?
Message-ID: <31291@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 13 Jun 91 14:03:48 GMT
References: <1991Jun13.084814.24491@agate.berkeley.edu> <23446@shlump.lkg.dec.com>
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In article <23446@shlump.lkg.dec.com> gettys@yacht.enet.dec.com (Bob Gettys) writes:
>
>	I was speaking with the developer of 4DOS last night at a BCS meeting 
>and he said that he expected to spend a LOT!! of time in the next few months
>telling people over and over that $DOS IS, repeate IS, fully compatible with
>MS-DOS V5.

Almost true.  DOS 5.0 has a loadhigh internal command that 4dos version 3.03
does not support (since DOS 4.01 didn't have it).  This is not a major problem
if you use QEMM to load TSR's high.  This is a problem if you don't have QEMM
or 386^Max, or whatever.

Also, from 4dos you can't run command.com, load the tsr high, and then exit
back to 4dos :-( 

>
>	Based on that, I would say that it definitely is. There are a few
>improvements that he is planning to make that will take better advantage of
>some of the internal DOS 5 features, but I didn't get into a discussion of 
>particulars. Note - that's better advantage - not just make it work. It works
>just fine already.
>

Yes, it works fine for me too, except for the loadhigh.  I would definitely
recommend using DOS 5.0, 4dos, and QEMM together.  I get 633,000 bytes free
using this combination.  That plus DOS 5.0's command.com is still so stupid as
to not have a move command, recogine *foo*.*, or have on-line help (yea, I
know they tried, but DOS 5.0 help is pitiful compared to 4dos's).

Again, 4dos is great! it's 99.9% compatible with DOS 5.0. But you'll have to
wait to version 3.04 (or whatever) to get the loadhigh command.


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