From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jochen Reinwand Subject: Re: your mail Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 13:20:01 +0200 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200307061320.01503.jbr.1@gmx.net> References: <1057435822.2023.49.camel@tamriel.terranforge.com> <3F07A038.8080608@worldnet.att.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3F07A038.8080608@worldnet.att.net> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org 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