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From: bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Patching PC-DOS 3.3/4.0 for DRIVPARM
Summary: Get free MS-DOS 3.30A upgrade
Message-ID: <1019@acornrc.UUCP>
Date: 27 Sep 88 00:05:41 GMT
References: <21083@watmath.waterloo.edu> <166@mccc.UUCP>
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In article <166@mccc.UUCP>, pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
> In article <21083@watmath.waterloo.edu> mshiels@watmath.waterloo.edu (Michael A. Shiels) writes:
> ...Does anyone know the locations for the patches for these versions of DOS??  I have
> ...been using DRIVPARM to give me 720K diskettes (using DD disks) in a 1.2M drive.
>
> I don't know how you get those 3.5" disks to stay in the 5.25" drive,
> but if you want to make 3.3 see a 720k dribe using DRIVPARM, using
> device=DRIVPARM {args}, change the = to three ^As.

This seems a bit cryptic.  If you have the "generic" Microsoft version
of MS-DOS 3.30, you can get a free upgrade to 3.30A which fixes
DRIVPARM and BACKUP and a few other things which I forget.

Just call the Microsoft customer service number or contact them via
CompuServe.  The latter worked better for me (i.e., I got the upgrade
after exchanging CIS mail with some Microsoft guy long after I had
given up on getting it from the phone guy).


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