So why don't we query him now and find out if he was serious?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 08:52
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Some automagic SETVER for FreeDOS


> Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze wrote:
> > Eric Auer wrote:
> >
> >> Hi, I fount a SETVER with source codes, and Simtel writes
> >> that it is part of the FreeDOS project. So we already have
> >> SETVER? Why did nobody tell me?
> >>
> >> http://www.bookcase.com/library/software/msdos.util.system.html
> >>
> >> -> SETVERB by David McIlwraith, written in ASM, 3k binary.
> >
> >
> > IIRC, it got yanked because the author had access to the M$ sources.
> >
>
>
> Correct.  He may have been only kidding, but at the time he posted his
> SETVER code, he strongly hinted that it was derived from MS-DOS SETVER.
>   So we were (and are) unable to accept it as part of FreeDOS.
>
> -jh
>
>
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