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From: cfrank@dogmatix.cs.uoregon.edu (Christian Frank)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: MS/DOS directories
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Date: 26 Jun 91 00:10:50 GMT
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In article <1991Jun25.192003.18195@keinstr.uucp> brinich@keinstr.UUCP (Mark Brinich) writes:
>I'd like to know why Novell wants you to put a seperate directory on your file
>server for every flavor of DOS you're running with all the DOS system files.  I
>don't know how many versions we're running here, but it's probably around 5-10.
>Since none of our workstations are diskless, I don't see why I need to keep
>this stuff hanging around on our fileserver. 
>-- 
>Mark Brinich

The reason to keep DOS on the server is the same as for any application program,
you just have one copy lying around. This saves diskspace and eases updating
(have you ever updated 30 PCs one by one?). If this is done consequently you
won't end up with 5-10 different flavors of DOS in the first place (if you 
buy an update for every machine).

The reason why Novell allows different versions of DOS on the server is that
some applications require specific versions of DOS and won't run with any
other (As DOS is unfortunately not really upward-compatible).

Christian
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