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Subject: DOS 2.0
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Date: Wed, 9-Nov-83 22:44:19 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  9 22:44:19 1983
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From:  Joel Seiferas  <joel@Rochester.ARPA>

1.  Does anyone know a way to install or remove device drivers without
rebooting?

2.  Just when can you actually count on F3 to recall the last line
entered?  (If the loss of this buffer coincides with loss of the
transient portion of COMMAND.COM, then I am surprised that I lose it
so often--I have plenty of main memory.)

3.  Output redirection can have some very strange side effects.  To
suppress the advertisement, I like to install ProKey from my
AUTOEXEC.BAT file as follows:

          PROKEY/R VEDIT.PKY >NUL:

(The special device NUL: is not the issue here; I would settle for an
ordinary temporary file instead.)  But when I include this, my PC
World demo of Microsoft's WORD cannot find its glossary; if I omit the
redirection, the demo works fine!  (Besides ProKey, I also have a
print spooler with the same strange property.)

Joel Seiferas
University of Rochester