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- From: bakercb@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Craig B Baker)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 a better DOS than DOS!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.180237.19876@cs.rose-hulman.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 18:02:37 GMT
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- In article <BuKwEF.MEE@nntp-sc.Intel.COM> crichmon@sedona.intel.com (Chris
- Richmond) writes:
- >
- > I guess that OS/2 really is a better DOS than DOS.
- >
- > I bought a new 486-33 a while ago and over the weekend, I was
- > trying out all my old DOS software to make sure it still worked
- > (under DOS 5.0). Well, everything was OK until I tried to
- > run Sprint (Borlands old word processor). It started loading,
- > spit out the one line title, and failed with a Divide overflow
- > error and stuck me back at the DOS prompt.
- >
- > This concerned my for a minute. I though it might be due to too much
- > free RAM (~620K). I loaded Turbo C++, shelled to DOS and Sprint still
- > woundn't run. Now I was worried. My 30 day trial had already passed
- > and I am 'stuck' with the computer now ( wish I could be stuck with a
- > car that is this relatively fast :^) ).
- >
- > Well have no fear, OS/2 is here! I opened a full screen DOS session,
- > loaded Sprint, and it worked flawlessly!
- >
- > Now, I don't really care that it doesn't work under DOS, but has anybody
- > seen this before??
- >
- > Thanks, Chris
- > --
- > Chris Richmond | Internet: crichmon@sedona.intel.com
- > Intel, Corp. C3-21 | Phone: (602)-554-8827
- > 5000 W. Chandler Blvd. | This crazy is a world place.
- > Chandler, AZ 85226 | My think losing I'm mind.
- >
- Yes I have seen this before, though not with that program. It was a
- zipped file that a friend of mine tried to decompress under DOS. It gave
- him some errors during the decompression and the program that was
- decompressed refused to run. So he used Os/2 to decompress the same file
- then tried to run the program under Os/2 in a Dos session. It worked
- without problems but still does not run under MSDOS.
- Go figure.
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