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From: ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Cnvrt MS-DOS 5.0 from 3.5 to 5.25 HELP
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.235255.7928@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu>
Date: 18 Jun 91 23:52:55 GMT
References: <1991Jun18.092013.51422@gmuvax.gmu.edu> <1991Jun18.165023.18490@world.std.com>
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In article <1991Jun18.165023.18490@world.std.com> brigc@world.std.com (Brig C McCoy) writes:
>>My secondary PC, however uses 5.25" diskettes.  I wanna break down the
>>3.5's into their equivalent 5.25's so I can upgrade the 5.25" machine
>>and know they'll be no problems.
>
>Not to rain on your parade, but ain't it illegal to copy commercial software?

Well, here's some stuff from the back of the MS-DOS 5 Upgrade box I've
got on my lap:

  Install easily.
    Whether you have one computer or one thousand to upgrade, MS-DOS
    version 5.0 Upgrade is the best choice for convenience, security and
    reliability.
    * Upgrade previous versions of DOS (version 2.11 or later) to MS-DOS
      operating system version 5.0
    * Installs quickly, even from a network, across different PC hardware
    * Is network-ready
    * Is supported directly by Microsoft, making it easy for your whole
      company to standardize on one version of DOS.

This whole thing leads me to belive that *if* you're licensed for a
copy of DOS for each machine you upgrade, you can use the upgrade as
many times you want on as many of your machines as you want.
-- 
Doug DeJulio
ddj@zarodz.club.cc.cmu.edu