This story made me smile.
I love tech so creative that even the developer did not realize included
solutions.
I have the full set of the final Norton Utilities for dos, 8 I believe.
I agree your trick would be useful, as would the program having the
ability to recognize several drives.
cheers,
Karen
On Wed, 2 Jul 2025, Daniel Essin via Freedos-user wrote:
Hinall,
Here's a DOS story from 1983. I had just gotten my new IBM XT It had it had 1
floppy and an hdd. I had a DOS program that was hard-coded to access the B:
drive but, of course the XT didn't have a B: drive. I has the original Norton
Utilities. I used it to open the program file and fond B: embedded in the
executable. I changed the B to an A and saved. Problem solved.
I wrote to Peter Norton and told him how I used his program. He wrote back saying:
"wow, I didn't know you could do that"
Maybe that sort of thing might still be useful today?
Dan Essin
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