Subj : Re: 4BATFAQ Update To : Dr John Stockton From : Charles Dye Date : Wed Jan 30 2002 07:19 am From: raster@highfiber.com (Charles Dye) Dr John Stockton wrote in message news:... > I have a cardboard box, supplied by Microsoft, and marked "MS-DOS 6.2 > UPGRADE Operating System". There is no reference to it containing any > other software. ISTM that one should accept the manufacturer's > definition of what comprises the MS-DOS Operating System - the *entire* > software contents of that box (plus anything inherited during upgrade, > believed to be nothing much). I for one would be *very* hesitant to accept Microsoft's definition of what constitutes an operating system.... At any rate, while it's conceivable that Microsoft might define GORILLA.BAS as "part of the operating system" most folks in the real world would instead call it a bundled file. -- Charles Dye raster@highfiber.com --- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-2 * Origin: Mach2 Systems (1:342/3) .