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From: w8sdz@rigel.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen)
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Subject: Re: Another MSdos 5.0 Problem (Lantastic)
Summary: Ask the software vendor about problems before posting
Keywords: MSDOS 5.0 Lantastic
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Date: 17 Jun 91 21:09:21 GMT
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feustel@netcom.COM (David Feustel) writes:
>Lantastic's NET attach/verbose command in the startnet.bat file
>does not work or report any error when started with MSDOS 5.0 as
>the boot os.

Dave, you seem intent on doing "Microsoft bashing".  Why is it
automatically "Another MSdos 5.0 Problem" (to quote your subject
line in the posting)?  Why didn't you use the subject "Apparent
incompatibility between Lantastic and MS-DOS 5.0" ?

How do you know that Lantastic wasn't using some undocumented feature
of earlier MS-DOS versions?  Any software that does that is subject to
breaking when new versions of MS-DOS are released.

Let's not automatically blame Microsoft when these things happen.
In this case you should have called Lantastic to ask if they knew
about any incompatibility problems.  It's very likely that they were
one of the Beta test sites for MS-DOS 5.0 and are therefore already
aware of the problem and probably have an update to fix it.

Keith
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