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Q100954: MS-DOS 5.0 Components Not Included with OmniBook

Article: Q100954
Product(s): Microsoft Windows 95.x Retail Product
Version(s): MS-DOS:5.0; WINDOWS:3.1
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): 
Last Modified: 01-NOV-1999

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Windows 3.1 
- Microsoft MS-DOS operating system version 5.0 
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SUMMARY
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The Hewlett-Packard (HP) OmniBook 300 ships with MS-DOS 5.0 preinstalled on
Flash read-only memory (ROM). The OmniBook, however, does not contain the full
retail version of MS-DOS.

Microsoft modified each product to operate on Flash ROM; these are not full
retail releases of the Microsoft products. In addition to the Flash ROM releases
of these Microsoft products, each OmniBook 300 owner is licensed to use the full
releases of the products.

MORE INFORMATION
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The following components are not included with the OmniBook version of MS-DOS:

- Append

- Assign

- Attrib

- Backup

- Comp

- Debug

- Diskcomp

- Diskcopy

- Doskey

- Dosshell

- Exe2bin

- Expand

- Fastopen

- FC

- Find

- Graftabl

- Graphics

- Help

- Join

- Label

- Mem

- Mirror

- More

- Qbasic

- Recover

- Restore

- Setver

- Sort

- Subst

- Sys

- Tree

- Undelete

- Unformat

The following device drivers are also excluded:

- Ansi

- Driver

- EGA

Contact Hewlett-Packard Technical Support for more information. Hewlett- Packard
Technical Support for HP OmniBook is available 5:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Pacific
time, Monday through Friday.

Additional query words:

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Keywords          :  
Technology        : kbWin3xSearch kbZNotKeyword3 kbWin310 kbMSDOSSearch kbMSDOS500
Version           : MS-DOS:5.0; WINDOWS:3.1

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