wrote:
> Which DOS do you use?
Peter,
On my tower desktop, PC-DOS 2000. On the Shuttle,
DR-DOS 7.01 (in which case it must be what Ray is
running, but it could be 7.02 or 7.03 -- I'll have to
check; I think there are versions in circulation out
to 7.05).
Curiously, I have a longstanding problem with the
latter: I can't see the C: partition at all from eCS
(!), although W2K has no problem accessing it. Jan
could not figure this out, based on the DFSTART files
I sent him, and I think Steven was also stumped when
this came up at a Help Desk. Most likely, there is
something wrong with the LVM info (which has been
redone numerous times, to no avail), or some arcane
partitioning issue. One often astute person I
correspond with on another list said it could be
something unique to DR-DOS. It has some kind of
limited "networking" support, apparently. Certain
files were mentioned (NWCLIENT ?), but I'd have to dig
up that email to quote this accurately. It left me
wondering if substituting PC-DOS, as on the tower,
would resolve this. But that would pose all kinds of
other problems. I think it would very likely trash
the W2K boot loader code that must reside in the root
of C:, and perhaps in a very specific location there.
If so, that would render the Win boot partitions
unbootable. Not something I was willing to mess with,
so I just forego access to C: from OS/2 on this
system.
> What DOS apps do you run?
I'm a heavy user of the DOS word-processor XyWrite 4,
enhanced with the "jumbo U2" libraries by Holmgren and
DiStefano. It runs perfectly under OS/2 though,
although not so perfectly under Win-32. There are
external DOS thesaurii I sometimes use, even though
the one in Xy is pretty good. Lotus 1-2-3 v. 3.x has
been little improved upon (IMO), in all the years
since it was a spreadsheet standard. I have a couple
DOS database programs, like NutShell Plus, but haven't
used them in awhile. The rest that I can think of
right now are mostly specific utilities, plus the
direct H/W diagnostic type stuff I mentioned earlier.
Jordan
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