Display alien Dos message function

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Contents 1 display alien Dos message function 2 Snippet and context 3 feel uncomfortable using DR-DOS 4 aard: how to explain the encrypted code ..

display alien Dos message function

Full code and explanation is here.

below are snippets and more context.

Snippet and context

if(!Verify_DOS() DisplayAlienDosMessage();

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near DisplayAlienDosMessage(void)

{

print(9,TAB,"WARNING: Microsoft QuickPascal has been tested for use");

print(lO,TAB,"only with the MS-DOS and PC-DOS operating systems.");

print(12,TAB,"Your use of this product with another operating system");

print(13,TAB,"may void valuable warranty protection provided by");

print(14,TAB,"Microsoft on QuickPascal.");

print(16,TAB,"...Press any key to continue");

getch();

return(1);

}

feel uncomfortable using DR-DOS

To: davidcol Subject: RE: message Date: Mon, 10 Feb 92 08:51:10 PST

what the guy is supposed to do is feel uncomfortable, and when he has bugs, suspect that the problem is dr-dos and then go out and buy ms-dos, or decide not to take the risk for the other machines he has to buy for in the office.

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From bradsi; Mon Feb 10 10:50:05 1992 To: steveb Subject: Re: the message Date: Mon, 10 Feb 92 10:50:05 PST

i am saying that we should either:

b) put a kind gentle message in setup. like an incompatible tsr message, but not everytime the user starts windows .. the most sensible thing from a development standpoint is to continue to build dependencies on msdos into windows.

aard: how to explain the encrypted code ..

From: darbyw To: Bradsi Cc: darbyw Subject: FW: DOS Practices Date: Wednedsday, September 01, 1993 8:55 AM

Thanks,Brad, I don't think this addresses the issue of our encrypting the code .. how do I explain that. I've got everything else programmed in my response.

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From: bradsi

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.. we do not test on other systems nor can we verify the stability of windows running on anything other than msdos ..

http://iowa.gotthefacts.org/011607/7000/PX07693.pdf

'You never sent me a response on what things an app would do that would make it run with MS-DOS and not run with DR-DOS'

"the approach that ralph and I have discussed is to use a vxd to 'extend' dos by patching it .. We would not patch unknown OSs"

http://iowa.gotthefacts.org/011607/0000/PX00979.pdf

http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/11/05/how_ms_played_the_incompatibility/