Subject: ETen under post-3.3 DOS

From: John McRae <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1992 10:51:09 EST

About ETen under post-3.3 versions of DOS:  I haven't tried this myself yet,
but when I installed DR DOS 6.0 on my 386SX recently I recall seeing that it
has a provision for telling applications that it is DOS 3.3 if they want to
know.  That is, the implication is that certain applications will check a point
in memory to see what operating system is being run and choke if they don't
find what they want.  DR DOS simply tells them what they want to hear and keeps
on trucking.  MS DOS 5.0, although inferior to DR DOS in all but sales volume
(or so I've read -- no commercial interest here, folks!), should be able to do
the same trick if you figure out how to teach it.  Let me know if this helps!

John R. McRae, Asst. Professor, Department of Asian Studies
Director, Cornell University Chinese-Japanese-Korean Computing
     and Database Facility (CJK-CDF), East Asia Program
389 Rockefeller Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY  14853-2502
o:  607/255-1328; fax: 255-1686