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From: erck12@castle.ed.ac.uk (G Ballinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS 4.00/4.01
Keywords: dos version
Message-ID: <184@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 18 Aug 89 15:07:38 GMT
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Reply-To: erck12@castle.ed.ac.uk (G Ballinger)
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In article <851@orbit.UUCP> joe@pnet51.cts.com (Jim Henderson) writes:

>To find out what version of DOS you are using, boot up from a system diskette
>and type the command "VER".  This will give you a message saying what version
>of DOS you are using.


	Under PC DOS 4.01, "VER" identifies itself as DOS 4.00 . I guess this is
due to the upgrade being brought out in a hurry after all the bugs were found in
the first release. Maybe IBM didn't want to admit that they could release a
product with bugs in it!

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