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- From: messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk)
- Subject: Re: Novell to buy USL !?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.164252.11050@netcom.com>
- Organization: Messina Software
- References: <1992Dec30.083457.10283@xenitec.on.ca>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:42:52 GMT
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- merce@xenitec.on.ca (Jim Mercer) writes while arguing "my OS is bigger then
- your OS":
-
- >we have 3 different DOS 5.0's (MS, Compaq and AST/ALR?) on our LAN, and
- >you have to perform additional magic to make it map to the proper directory.
- >otherwise you get "Invalid COMMAND.COM" errors.
-
- Are you using diskless workstations?? From what you're saying, it just
- sounds like you have an incompetent administrator who hasn't noticed
- the arrival of hard disks and local command interpreters. Don't blame
- DOS for that (it's got enough things to be blamed for).
-
- t.
-