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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
