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- From: kitchin@lf.hp.com (Bruce Kitchin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Beta 2.1 in IBM-BBS
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 16:22:18 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett Packard Santa Clara Site
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- Timothy F. Sipples (sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu) wrote:
- :
- : On the other hand, you can obtain it for $15 by calling 800-3-IBM-OS2.
- : On CD-ROM, granted. In the U.S., granted. Also, the license
- : accompanying this CD-ROM permits you to use the code for a limited
- : time, and it permits you to distribute up to 10 copies "within your
- : organization." You may interpret the word "organization" broadly, I
- : suppose.
- :
- It hasn't been mentioned that I've seen yet, but with the CD-ROM, it is
- possible to make floppies to use for installation on a system that does
- not have a CD-ROM drive. I've done it. I made the disks on an OS/2 system,
- both 3.5 and 5.25 disks can be made. It looks like you can make the
- disks from a DOS system with a CD-ROM drive but I haven't done that. Making
- disks was important to me since I have one system with a CD-ROM drive and
- two others without. From what I saw you can make disks of a different size
- than your A drive if you have a B drive of that type. This would help if
- your non-CD-ROM system had a different drive A than your CD-ROM system.
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