william@syacus.acus.oz (William Mason) (10/06/90)
On an MS-DOS system(?) ... does the date that MD-DOS seems to reoprt
mean anything ? Or is it as I suspect a product of the latest BIOS
date ?
I have two /things/ purporting to be (legitimate) MS-DOS 3.10 but with
different BIOS date (Feb '85 and Oct '85). With differing BIOS version
numbers: 2.7 and 3.1.1.
NOW common sense would say that "lateris better", nee ? Oohh no! Others'
PC/MS-DOS utiltiies (PRINT, DEBUG, etc.) work with the 2.7 version ... but
not withe the 3.1.1 version. *AND* even the COMMAND.COM-s fail on the
FC COMMAND.27 COMMAND.311 /B
command. (Infact the earlier version is 22,677 vs. 23,210 bytes).
Can anyone help ... machine is Apricot PC
Thanks,
William Mason : william@syacus.oz.au : ACUS r+D : Sydney : OZ