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From: jmv@sppy00.UUCP (Jim Vickroy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS 4.0 problems
Message-ID: <288@sppy00.UUCP>
Date: 17 Apr 89 14:11:40 GMT
References: <29008@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: jmv@sppy00.UUCP (Jim Vickroy)
Organization: Online Computer Library Center, Dublin, Ohio.
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In article <29008@apple.Apple.COM> apn@Apple.COM (Alex Novickis) writes:
=>I recently put DOS 4.0 on a system that used DOS 3.3 ( both IBM releases ), It
=> seems that now many utilities are broken, namely norton. Any thoughts ?
=>

Many of the Norton Utilities won't work because with DOS 4.0, the File
Allocation Table (FAT) was enlarged to support 32Kb+ sized files. Once 
you install 4.0, you also cannot go back to another version of DOS without
reformatting.

jim
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