[att.micro.pc] Poet Problem

gauss@homxc.ATT.COM (E.GAUSS) (05/06/89)

I purchased a product, POET's COMPANION, that was supposed to work
on all MS-DOS machines.  It does not work on MS-DOS 2.11.  In
my exchange of letters with the living room company that is selling
it, I find that they have only tested it on PC-DOS of versions
higher than 3.0.

The program bombs when it cannot find its data files.

All I have are the .EXE and the .DAT files.  If any of you software
gurus know of the differences between 2.11 and 3.+ at this level,
and if a fix might be possible using DEBUG please aim me in the
right direction.

I really am not going to convert to 3.+ to get POET working because
I have much to much software running nicely on 2.11 and if it ain't
broke I ain't going to fix it.  I would much rather smash POET trying
to fix that, than to debug the rest of my system after a release change.

Ed Gauss