On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 23:30:52 -0800 (PST), Amir Caspi wrote:
> OK, I've resolved this but have a different question now. =P It turns out
> my existing DOS installation on the Parallels VM used a basic 6.22
> install which had only the first install disk's worth of stuff.
That shouldn't happen. Even MS-DOS 5.0's MODE already support LPT.
> BUT -- when I tried a _fresh_ install from the 3-disk set, the ASSIGN
> command kept returning an error ("incorrect DOS version").
That shouldn't happen either. Chances are those disk set are custom
compiled. Get a correct disk set from Internet Archive.
> I tried using
> SETVER but could not find a version number that would work properly.
IIRC, SETVER won't work for MS-DOS own programs as they detect the real DOS
version, rather than the reported DOS version. SETVER only change the
reported DOS version.