on Mon, 13 Feb 2006
19:54:12 PST8
> Michael Rakijas wrote:
>
> >>You hand OS/2 a DOS drive and you get one or both of those files. I
> >>go to real DOS to get rid of them.
> >
> > If you mean, go to a machine with Real DOS
>
> Yes, either DRDOS or FREEDOS. Only my laptop does not have DOS, yet,
> the OSs on the laptop are HPFS and NTFS, which I cannot at this time
> write to from DOS.
I don't see why this is any better than having a Win98 machine, for which USB
drivers exist and for which I have no trouble dispensing with the offending
files (sometimes it's tedious but it's 100% reliable.
> On all my current machines USB is native under DOS.
Where do you get the USB drivers? No matter, really. This is my fail safe
right now. Separate machine, separate boot. I don't see this as different.
> There is no OS less hassle, or quicker to boot than DOS.
In between adding DOS to the existing machine and keeping a separate machine,
it's six of one, half a dozen of the other. I avoid the end user's confusion
(recall, it's not me) and she can continue to use her machine for whatever she
needs it. I take it to the other and effect the fix. A bother but no
different that stopping everything for the reboot.
> Ray
-Rocky
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