Hi Bob.

01-Nov-03 10:33:11, Bob Lawrence wrote to All


 BL> WARNING **********  ON TOPIC QUESTION  ********** WARNING

 BL> Hi all, I hate to ask an on-topic, but I need your help.

is it NTSC or PAL ?

 BL> I run three Operating Systems on this computer: DOS6.22-Win311,
 BL> DOS7-Win98, and Linux. Linux never causes any problems, but
 BL> occasionally, Win98 writes a long file name into my DOS6 FAT file
 BL> system where I run Win311.

 BL> I usually fix it in Win98, but yesterday I ran SCANDISK under DOS6
 BL> and it gave a message "You are using a beta version of DOS6,
 BL> upgrade to an official release."


 BL> Now, as it happens, I do *not* run a beta release of DOS6. It's
 BL> actually DOS6.22 (the one with the disc-compression thaty Gates
 BL> stole), and I *bought* the bloody thing!

yeah, I see that string here too. (inside the execuutable)

 BL> So, I looked at the system files and scandsik.exe, and they're all
 BL> the same datestamp... so I booted the old computer (from whence
 BL> came the DOS6 and Win311 originally) and scandisk ran okay.

 BL> I am confused. Defrag works okay... it's just scandisk.

scandisk a floppy on the new computer,
try it with the hard drive unplugged or disabled.

 BL> And BTW, it's a while since I used this computer in Win311 to
 BL> write mail. Compared to Win98, is like lightning here in Win311.
 BL> Win98 is so slooooowww...

the upgrade is all smoke and mirrors....

 -=> Bye <=-

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