Re: your mail

[Jochen Reinwand <jbr.1@gmx.net>]

The latest and best MS-DOS is as far as I know the DOS included in Windoze 
98SE. The One from ME is much smaller and misses a lot of tools. Although it 
is really there, no matter what M$ says...

I once installed 98SE and stripped of all Windows parts. After a few very easy 
tricks (e.g. add/change some lines to/in msdos.sys) you have a really good 
MS-DOS. VFAT is really important with today's harddrives...

Perhaps it would be a good idea to build an MS-DOS distribution with that 
version. Don't get it wrong! I'm not talking about illegal copies. It should 
be possible to write scripts that extract the necessary files from a 98SE CD, 
build ZIPs out of them, make a boot cd using the ERD (Emergency Rescue Disk) 
and so on. So everyone owning a legal 98SE copy can make his/her own _legal_ 
MS-DOS distribution with the help of free tools and scripts.
Then it would be nice to provide additional support for free tools and djgpp. 
Everything on one cd and a real cool Unix compatible MS-DOS is ready ;-)

Anybody interested in such an distribution?

Jochen

On Sunday 06 July 2003 06:06, Jim Hartley wrote:
> DOS 7.10? I guess that's one of those "M$-hidden-under-Windoze-DOS"
> versions? It gets confusing, since M$ used 7.x for those, while there is
> also an IBM PC-DOS 7.0 which is a "real" DOS and that's the one I always
> think of when DOS 7 is mentioned. That one is my favorite, I still have
> copies around, especially in the form of quick-boot utility diskettes. I
> guess one reason I like it is because I got it LEGALLY for free - a
> reward for participating in the Beta test. (Then again, those who know
> me know I will go to great lengths to avoid using ANY Micro$quish
> products.)
>
> Jim Hartley