Hi Carey Bloodworth!
21-Mar-97 21:37:00, Carey Bloodworth tapped feverishly away
and wrote to Krishna Gans Subject: OpenDos and Geoworks Ense
 CB> KG>Will that be a complete NWDOS 7, with taskmanager / -switching ??
 CB> It does.
 CB> However, personally, I found OD7's EMM386 to be a bit buggy, getting a
 CB> number of protection violations with a number of common programs.
Me, too.
 CB> Plus, the multi-tasker / taskswitching (taskmgr) does _not_ work that
 CB> well.
Task switching worked okay, but multi-tasking isn't very good.
 CB> Possibly because of emm386 or maybe some other reason.  Caldera
 CB> was supposed to have fixed all the known bugs in ND7 (and there were a
 CB> lot), but they may have missed one, or introduced a few.
Having used ND7, I could find no bugs that were fixed in the Caldera
version. Of course, Novell put out 15 updates and many of the bugs they
fixed were pretty obscure.
 CB> One person has reported a stable system using MS-DOS 6's himem & emm386
 CB> in place of OD7's emm386 (which combines the two.)
I use PC DOS 7.0's memory management with OD7. This gives much more
conventional memory than the now-obsolete MS-DOS 6.0.
 CB> I just went ahead and reinstalled MS6.  (It has a much
 CB> nicer DIR command, for one thing.)
The extended directory options were introduced by DR DOS 6.0. To
maintain compatibilty with MS-DOS they were put into an external
utility XDIR. OD7 continues to use XDIR. As for nicer commands, try
this with MS-DOS 6.x:
        FORMAT A: uv
With DR DOS 6.0, ND7 and OD7 that will format the disk unconditionally
without pausing for a volume label despite the fact that the syntax
should be
        FORMAT A: /u /v:
Many of the OD7 commands are similarly forgiving. E.g. ATTRIB
filename +rsh instead of ATTRIB +r +s +h filename.
OD7's FDISK will delete partitions (created by OS/2 or whatever) that
the MS- and PC- DOS equivalents cannot.
However, the big advantage of OD7, for SLOW computers is the task
switching. Currently I am using it on a slow computer and my fast one
has been switched back to PC DOS 7.0.
Regards
Peter Campbell
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