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MS-DOS Version 5.0 - General Information
DocumentID: 626267
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:41:34 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

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Solutions: The following are excerpts from the Microsoft Newsletter, One-to-One With Microsoft.

The Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0 Upgrade is the most important upgrade of the DOS operating system in years.

All levels of computer users, especially Microsoft Windows graphical environment users, will appreciate the new features in the upgrade. It lets you run larger applications, navigate more easily through files, and switch quickly among applications. It is supported directly from Microsoft.

New Upgrade Features

More Memory
Installing this operating system upgrade on any PC with an 80286 or higher processor automatically gives applications more room in which to work. Because DOS automatically loads most of itself into any extended memory your computer may have, it frees up at least 45K of conventional memory for applications in most configurations. On a PC with an 80386 or higher processor, you can also load network software, device drivers, and TSR (terminate and stay resident) software into the upper memory area between 640K and 1024K. MS-DOS 5.0 upgrade is convenient, secure and reliable. It easily upgrades version 2.11 or later of DOS from any PC manufacturer to MS-DOS version 5.0. It installs quickly, even from a network, across diverse PC hardware. Microsoft supports it directly, making it easy for a whole organization to standardize on one version of DOS.

Utilities To Take Out Mysteries Of DOS
A graphical shell makes interfacing with MS-DOS intuitive. On-line Help from the graphical shell or the command-line interface puts MS-DOS help at your service. A full-screen editor with drop-down menus makes editing text files simple.

New Features
The new features are designed to save time and keystrokes:
*      An UNDELETE command that lets you recover critical deleted files.
*      Quick-format and unformat utilities allows you to format disks fast and safely.
*      A task-swapper ends the time-consuming program swapping routine.
*      A command-line history and command line editor lets you browse and select from previous commands.
*      MS-DOS QBasic Interpreter, a subset of Microsoft QuickBasic, replaces GW-BASIC.

MS-DOS 5.0 won't install on your computer if you don't already have DOS, but it will upgrade your existing DOS (ver 2.11 or later) to version 5.0.

In the past, PC users have obtained DOS only through hardware manufacturers. Now PC users can get the upgrade (from version 2.11 or later) of DOS operating system directly from a local retail software outlet.

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