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- From: ted@isgtec.com (Ted Richards)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Difference between DOS upgrade and full version
- Message-ID: <3237@isgtec.isgtec.com>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 13:46:50 GMT
- References: <1992Sep2.141034.971@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Sender: news@isgtec.com
- Organization: ISG Technologies Inc. Mississauga Ont. Canada
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- David Charlap (dic5340@hertz.njit.edu) wrote:
- : In article <1992Sep2.061125.24251@weyrich.UUCP> orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich) writes:
- : >
- : >Of course others have posted the work-around for this silly marketing
- : >ploy that sometimes fails and gives legitimate users a headache. :-)
- :
- : It may be silly, but it rarely fails, and it's easier than making
- : people tear cover pages out of their DOS manuals.
-
- It failed for me: none of my 3.5 inch diskettes had a slider in the
- write-enable slot, not even the one that the installation program
- writes to. It took me several tries before I discovered that if you
- told OS/2 to return the error to the prorgam, it carried on with the
- installation anyway.
-
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