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From: bc@cyb-eng.UUCP (Bill Crews)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: RE: converting from 2.X to 3.X
Message-ID: <612@cyb-eng.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 23:42:32 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  9 23:42:32 1985
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Organization: Cyb Systems, Austin, TX
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> Note that this is an unlikely condition.  Most people will SYS to their hard
> disk when they first get it;  well in advance of putting any files on the
> disk.
> This means that IBMDOS and IBMBIO are continuous.  It is unlikely that IBMBIO
> will grow beyond their combined size.

What about those of us who are used to using the /b switch on format to
distribute our software without also distributing DOS?  DOS 3.x users will
not be able to SYS their DOS onto the diskettes to make them bootable.  Am I
missing something?
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