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DOS FAQ by Christoph FuchsI found an outdated (March 14, 1997) OpenDOS FAQ at http://www.delorie.com/opendos/faq/. If you know any other DR-DOS/OpenDOS FAQ, please contact me <cfuchs@n-net.org>. PTS DOS is a russian DOS, written in assembler. It's really fast. It comes on two floppy disks, one with the system and the utilities, the other one with Arachne as webbrowser. It claims to be MS-DOS compatible, but it's a bit strange in configuration and memory management but it is still developed. At http://phystechsoft.
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DOS FAQ by Christoph FuchsYes, there is. Lineo sells licenses in big packages, but if you only want to buy a single license you can get it at http://www.blands.co.uk, at Caldera (only version 7.02) or - if you live in or near Germany you can purchase it at http://www.linuxland.de.
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DOS FAQ by Christoph FuchsYou have to change the country-settings in config.sys (add 21000 to the country code): COUNTRY=21049,437,c:\drdos\country.sys This will switch the currency from "DM" to "EUR" and the format of the date from "dd.mm.yyyy" to the new format defined in DIN EN 28601 (ISO 8601) "yyyy-mm-dd". This will also work for the other countries in the European Union which take part in the currency union and which are supported by DR-DOS: Simply add 21000 to the country code in config.
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DOS FAQ by Christoph Fuchsalternative to the official documentation is the outstanding file nwdostip.txt in the MPDOSTIP.ZIP archive (http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html#M.MPDOSTIP) from Matthias Paul. This package isn't an official document, but it contains much information about DR-DOS and other DOS related topics like NC and a file with many undocumented features of DR-DOS. Unfortunately, these files only exist in german language.
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DOS FAQ by Christoph FuchsOn modern system with harddisks >8GB you often have got the problem that you must use the new 0Fh extended partition (LBA) instead of the old sort 05h extended partition (CHS). DR-DOS 7.03 won't accept this new type 0Fh and won't have access to the data. A solution would be to use the old 05h partition type but then you would have access to 8 GB under DR DOS but you would be limited to these 8 GB under Windows 9x/NT, too.
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DOS FAQ by Christoph FuchsFirst of all, you need a DOS compatible modem or ISDN card. I advise to use the Arachne browser, a great DOS webbrowser with PacketDriver and dialer. It's not difficult to set it up.
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