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From: mru@unccvax.UUCP (Markus Ruppel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Wanted: reports on Concurrent DOS
Message-ID: <981@unccvax.UUCP>
Date: 10 May 88 06:22:48 GMT
References: <1436@titan.camcon.uucp>
Organization: Univ. of NC at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
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in article <1436@titan.camcon.uucp>, igp@camcon.uucp (Ian Phillipps) says:
> 
> I evaluated CDOS-XM (version 5.1 I think); it seemed ok but not what we were
> looking for at the time.

Look at the newest release 6.0 ( or 2.0 for 80386 ) which is DOS 3.3 com-
patible. But anyway, what where you looking for ?

> 
> HOWEVER - it did trash a hard disk formatted by MSDOS 3.x.  The product did
> announce DOS 2 compatibility. What that meant was that if presented with a
> disk with 16-bit FAT entries (a DOS 3 extension) it just screwed the disk up
> rather than saying "I don't understand this disk".

I've been using 5.0, 5.1, and 5.2 ( after that 6.0 ) on DOS 3.1 & 3.2
formated HD's and never had a problem. Would you mind to specify how your
HD crashed ?
 
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