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  1. Path: globe.indirect.com!indirect
  2. From: raster@indirect.com (Charles Dye)
  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: 9 Feb 1996 15:30:41 GMT
  6. Organization: Internet Direct, Inc.
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  12. In article <4ff2im$b0h@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com>,
  13.    jmrubin@ix.netcom.com (Joel Rubin) wrote:
  14. >Does anyone know why the DOS supplemental junk that you download from 
  15. >ftp.microsoft.com have version checks on them? It's a pain to add stuff 
  16. >to SETVER and reboot or to unexepack and hack the programs to disable 
  17. >the version checks. (Does Microsoft want to encourage hacking of their 
  18. >programs?) I don't think they've posted these programs for Win95 yet.
  19.  
  20. Of course they don't.  That's why they PKlite stuff, as well; the actual
  21. savings of space are minimal.  As for Win95, most of the command-line
  22. utilities do appear on the CD; perhaps you have the floppy version?
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