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From: act@softserver.canberra.edu.au (Andrew Turner)
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Subject: Re: Looking for MS-DOS 5.0 Compatibility Tricks...
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.002147.9974@csc.canberra.edu.au>
Date: 21 Jun 91 00:21:47 GMT
References: <1991Jun16.043650.7990@vpnet.chi.il.us> <1991Jun17.173153.17151@ugle.unit.no> <1991Jun20.121241.1190@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
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In article <1991Jun20.121241.1190@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg) writes:
>
>If this is really necessary (what I doubt) what shall I do if I have 
>one program that needs version 5 and another one that refuses
>to work unless it is running on a specific dos version.
>
>Do I have to boot every time I want to switch between these
>two programs? Great!
>-- 
NO! NO! NO!. Read your MSDOS 5 manual please. If you haven't got your upgrade
yet then here's how setver works.
1. In CONFIG.SYS you say device=[drive:][path]setver.exe. This will need just
one reboot! Setver is now installed and keeps a 'lie table'(NB not one for
sleeping/doing-others-things on) which will permit up to about 30 entries.
2. Having rebooted type setver and you will get a listing of the lie table
which may well already have some entries after an upgrade install - the install
may well have put setver into config.sys.
3. Now if you have a program that needs to think its running under an earlier 
version of DOS then say 'setver [drive:path]filename n.nn' where n.nn is the
DOS version that is the lie. This updates setver's table which is kept across
boots until you say 'setver [drive:path]filename [/delete[/quiet]]'.
4. NB****** For the updated table to take effect you need to reboot BUT the 
info entered is NOT lost - and of course you can have more than one program in
the lie table!!!!!!!!!!

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 Andrew Turner  act@csc.canberra.edu.au
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