Frits, if you leave out the DOS Shell, the Phoenix PCMCIA support, the REXX support, The Central Point BackUp and Scheduler programs, the IBM AntiVirus program, and the Stacker installation files; All good stuff, by the way, then an installed PC-DOS 7.00 is probably about the size of MS-DOS 6.22, although some of the individual files are actually a little smaller than their MS-DOS counterparts. I believe you also get a choice as to whether you want the online manuals installed along with the viewer program to read them in hypertext context. You are also asked if you will be using the DOS in conjunction with MS-Windows. If you answer Yes to that prompt by checking that option, additional stuff is also installed, including the appropriate lines in your Windows 3.XX startup files. So, PC-DOS has even better support and smoother operation with MicroSoft Windows than does any MicroSoft DOS version 6.XX. With the barest minimum, PC-DOS 7.XX might have an installed footprint a little smaller than an installed MS-DOS 6.22. Except for file updates and bug-fixes, and the Y2K compliance, PC-DOS 2000 should be the same. One of the updates was in PC-DOS 2000 is to make it be able to deal with the symbol for the new Euro currency, a small touch, but one which you might actually appreciate! In the U.S., IBM charges $55 for PC-DOS 2000 if you get it on the CD-Rom, $65 if you get it on the floppy disks. I think that price may include shipping and handling. It will install on any machine with any version of DOS from 3.3 or later, definitely 5.0 or later regardless of who's DOS is being installed over. An IBM rep told me that if I had already downloaded and applied all the updates and the appropriate language/country Y2K patch for my PC-DOS 7.00 that I already have everything that PC-DOS 2000 would buy me. I might still buy it, just because it is the final, ultimate, and maybe the last great implementation of DOS, although IBM may still offer file updates to address specific problems with specific system configurations, or specific bug fixes. After all, IBM released patches and updates for DOS 3.3 as late as 1990; patches and fixes for DOS 4.0 as late as 1991, and fixes and updates for PC-DOS 5.0 as late as April, 1993. There are still fairly recent patches for PC-DOS 6.1 and PC-DOS 6.3 on IBM's FTP sites. MicroSoft stopped any further updates for DOS 5.0 except for the antivirus program as soon as they released DOS 6.0. Actually, the latest patch filedates I saw for MS-DOS 5.0 had an early 1992 filedate, and DOS 6.0 was released in March, 1993. Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brent Reynolds, Atlanta, GA USA CCompliments of the Itty Bitty Machine Company. Net-Tamer V 1.12 Beta - Registered To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies.
