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- From: furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: DOS 6 Beta Looks for OS/2!!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.221112.21578@sequent.com>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 22:11:12 GMT
- Article-I.D.: sequent.1993Jan2.221112.21578
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- In article <1993Jan02.094926.14462@donau.et.tudelft.nl> linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee) writes:
- >philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- >
- >>In article <1993Jan1.133731.2312@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> z_kupkams@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
- >>>
- >>> All this talk about FUD & Misinformation about OS/2 from Microsoft has
- >>>some NEW Merit!
- >>>
- >>> I Recently talked to a Beta Tester of DOS 6.0. He Runs OS/2 with 2 Hard
- >>>Drives, One FAT, One HPFS. He decided to Install the DOS 6.0 Beta on the FAT
- >>>Partition, and got a Message saying, and I paraphrase:
- >>>
- >>>- OS/2 Detected! Due to the size of OS/2 you may wish to delete your OS/2
- >>>files before installing DOS 6.0 -
- >
- >> Interesting. What is the problem with that? If there was a
- >>similar message that said "Autocad detected. Due to the size of
- >>Autocad you may wish to delete your Autocad files before installing
- >>DOS 6.0", whould that be bad too?
- >
- >If DOS is advanced enough to detect the presence of potential
- >disk hoggers (what does it do? Keep a database?) it should
- >certainly be smart enough to tell if there is room enough.
- >If it finds too little room, it should just say so, not
- >indicate anything as a potential problem. It is silly to
- >give messages like, X detected. If there are many X's which
- >one would be the problem? If there are no X's then what to
- >do? No piece of software should be a smartass, let the user
- >decide what he does and does not need.
- >
- >Erik
- >--
-
- One of the features that I am aware of is a STACKER like operation
- that does on the fly compression of disk files. If this is the case
- then it might cause OS/2 some serious angst trying to deal with
- compressed files, where before there were none.
-
- I have a serious problem with software that compresses my binaries
- and anything else on the disk I have not asked for specifically. Is
- there a way to permanently disable this feature ? If so, great. If
- not, I'll stick with a pure DOS 5.0 with my OS/2.
-
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