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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: SETUP programs
Message-ID: <1540@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 6 May 88 21:41:48 GMT
References: <1510@slvblc.UUCP> <45900126@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: bright@dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Organization: Data I/O Corporation; Redmond, WA
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My beef about MSC51 setup is that it crashes my IBM AT. That's right,
merely type
	SETUP
and then you have to go for the Big Red Switch. It turns out that the problem
is that SETUP won't work with the Quadram EGA. I run lots of ega text and
graphics programs on my EGA, and the only ones that have failed are Codeview 
(unless you use the -p switch) and SETUP. Why does a simple file-copying
program require register-level EGA compatibility? I wonder how this will
sell in the Japanese market, where the machines are not even BIOS compatible.

Interestingly, OS/2 does work with my crusty old QuadEGA+.

I guess my main beef is trying to figure out how to create the combined
libraries without SETUP. The manual should contain instructions for doing
a by-hand installation.

MOPAR rules.