Hi Christian,

You wrote on 27.10.03 about "new beta Version OpenXP (3.8.13)":

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AS>> The screen garbage problem is still evident :(

CB> As expected... Markus could not reproduce it, so he couldn't fix
CB> anything. But he does not have DR-DOS for testing.

I await a comment from Martin on that item - providing his  
experiment works :)

AS>> Plus that "ghost" B: drive still remains.

CB> And it will remain, as there seems to be no (easy/known) way for
CB> a DOS program to detect whether that drive is actually existing
CB> or not. DOS always reserves that drive letter, regardless whether
CB> there is a drive attached or not.

My only "argument" there Christian, is that other versions of  
CrossPoint manage to not identify a "ghost" B: drive.
Similarly various old DOS programs, e.g. SYSCHK, can identify  
when a B: drive is connected or not.
Maybe the "snoop" requires some old Assembler coding ??

CB>>>   564631 Oct 26 19:41 openxp-3.9.8-33.dos.rar

CB>>> Hmm, the 3.9 seems to be a bit small?

AS>> The main contents of that are just the updated .HLP and .RES
AS>> files.

CB> Sounds strange, there should be a binary in there as well;
CB> otherwiese the whole thing is pointless.

The only binaries in it are the "standard" items like UUZ.EXE,  
CWSDPMI.EXE, etc. it's just the OPENXP.EXE which is absent.
i.e.  11 files instead of the 12 in the "official" snapshot  
archive.

I just assumed that it was probably a work-in-progress archive,  
in readiness for the next snapshot insertion.  It certainly  
didn't cause me any real hardship :)

TTFN,

Archie

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