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Subject: Re: Bad News for E/D and Mac
From: jeff.peters@wdn.com (JEFF PETERS)
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Date: Fri, 01 Dec 95 09:46:00 -0500
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Moments ago on "Bad News for E/D and Mac", CLIFFORD T said:
CT>Everything points towards a problem in some Gateway BIOs as the cause
CT>of Executor's inability to read and write Macintosh formatted
CT>floppies.
<snip>
CT>Sadly, I think the only other thing we can do until we hear from
CT>Gateway is to list this problem in the Executor FAQ.
Thanks for the in-depth investigation, Cliff. You might also add to the
FAQ that, at least in my case, E/D works just fine in DOS session under
Win95 on the same Gateway 486 that has this problem under DOS 6.22.
Thanks again for your vigilance.
- Jeff
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