Re: Major bug with DRDOS!

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From: m90... Robin Watts
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 1995 11:54

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In article <M90RJW.95...@pierrot.comlab.ox.ac.uk> m90...@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Robin Watts) writes:

   I downloaded Descent yesterday, and much to my disappointment, it
   doesn't run on the PC I am using claiming I have only MSDOS 3.31

   I am actually using DRDOS 6.

   Anything I can do about it?

Thanks to all who responded to this. A typical response was:

:Yes, this (from what we hear) is a problem with DRDOS and the way it
:responds to version checks.  There is a utility on ftp.wustl.edu
:under pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/descent that will fix this problem for you.
:
:-- 
:---
:Adam Pletcher
:Parallax Software

Thanks again,

Robin

P.S. One for the FAQ I would suspect...

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