Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:15398 comp.os.misc:436 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!gatech!mcnc!unccvax!mru 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 Lines: 31 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 ? > UUCP: ...!ukc!camcon!igp | Cambridge Consultants Ltd | Ian Phillipps > or: igp@camcon.uucp | Science Park, Milton Road |----------------- > Phone: +44 223 358855 | Cambridge CB4 4DW, England | Markus Ruppel Dept. of Chemistry Univ. of NC at Charlotte UUCP: ...!mcnc!unccvax!mru ...!mcnc!mru BITNET: ACC00MR1@UNCCVM