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From: clubok@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (Ken "The Snake" Clubok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: G-Dos
Message-ID: <2010@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 90 19:47:47 GMT
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In article <1344@lzsc.ATT.COM> hcj@lzsc.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) writes:
>You can't buy gdos.  A software product that uses it has to BUY it from
>ATARI, and put it on a disk for you.  Once you buy one program with it

This is all very well and good, but then how does one go about using PD
programs that require GDOS?  Case in point:  I have Opus, and would 
really like to use the charting functions, but that requires making
metafiles.  Actually, I have GDOS, as distributed with my Wordup disks, 
but I still lack the META.SYS file I need for Opus.  So do I need to buy
a commercial program that includes META.SYS?  Or can I buy it separately?
Or is it public domain?  I've posted this question a couple times before,
with no response, so perhaps I'll have better luck this time.
Ken Clubok
clubok@husc4.bitnet
clubok@husc4.harvard.edu