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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, James Miller wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > For computers that work properly, FreeDOS seems like a much simpler
> > solution than DOS7.10, which is tricky to install and offers the
> > possibility of screwing things up when you defrag with FreeDOS defrag.
> > And FreeDOS occupies less lower memory.
>
> Be aware that FreeDOS is undergoing constant development, too.  They're
> preparing for a milestone 1.0 release in the next few months.  It's
> possible that the defrag problems you've experienced have been fixed in

Our defrag problems occurred because FreeDOS defrag does not apparently 
deal with long file names and I tried to run it on a partition that had 
them.  Also because FreeDOS ignored the Win98 (and 7.10) lock and blithely 
went ahead and ran anyway.  If they 'fix' that problem it won't work on 
7.10 even in situations where you have no LFN or Fat32.

> some newer version: have you downloaded the most recent version?  When I
We have only the version you gave us but will download the latest kernel, 
and maybe not install to anything important until 1.0 arrives.

> was fiddling with USB mass storage under FreeDOS and communicating with
> one of the developers about it, he was encouraging me to download the
> latest kernel and version of format which, though only 3 or 4 months old,
> had already been updated/superceded.
>
> James
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