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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Restrictions on 'free' UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD)
Message-ID: <DWGI541@taronga.com>
Date: 19 Aug 92 12:23:32 GMT
References: <PHR.92Aug17110648@soda.berkeley.edu> <GTFIR8A@taronga.com> <1992Aug18.155958.3671@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
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In article <1992Aug18.155958.3671@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gsh7w@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) writes:
>In article <GTFIR8A@taronga.com> peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>#And while it's [MSDOS] a screaming horror from
>#the sewers of hell, it *does* run out of the box without any diddling, and
>#has a zillion applications for it.

>Then how come every time my brother wants to install a new program, I
>have to use EDLIN to edit the config.sys file on his pc?

I don't know... the only thing I ever did with config.sys was put vdisk.com
in it. What sort of idiot applications is he running? Networking or something
else quite unsuited to DOS?
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