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  1. Path: newspost1.alt.net!usenet
  2. From: raymondc@microsoft.com (Raymond Chen)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.lang.asm.x86,comp.lang.c,comp.os.msdos.programmer
  4. Subject: Re: FREEDOS: did someone see it? (was Re: ANNOUNCE: New Free-DOS
  5. Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 17:05:33 GMT
  6. Organization: Microsoft Corporation
  7. Message-ID: <311b7e91.8157128@157.55.96.156>
  8. References: <3jkaun$8rn@2hoog.vpro.nl> <3k8iue$1ncb@rs6a.wln.com> <4enb2g$711@spruce.citicorp.com> <621WV-sfN1B@oscar.north.de> <4evol1$lla@dfw.nkn.net> <4f8a2s$sgq@natasha.rmii.com> <1996Feb8.155359.10019@kbbs.org> <4ff2im$b0h@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com>
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  11. On 9 Feb 1996 09:02:14 GMT, jmrubin@ix.netcom.com (Joel Rubin) wrote:
  12. >Does anyone know why the DOS supplemental junk that you download from 
  13. >ftp.microsoft.com have version checks on them?
  14.  
  15. Because the mechanism for including language-sensitive data changed
  16. from version to version.  (Language-sensitive data = French vs.
  17. English vs. German, etc.)
  18.  
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