From: hexdump AT curmudgeon DOT invalid (Hexdump)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: c|net: Microsoft has officially killed MS-DOS.
Date: 25 Apr 2000 05:25:05 GMT
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On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 23:57:26 +0200, Thomas Overgaard wrote:
>Outsider Wrote:
>> 
>> Check this out.
>> 
>> Here is a search page for Microsoft product support:
>> http://search.support.microsoft.com/kb/c.asp
>> 
>> Windows 3.x users are EXCLUDED access to this page!
>> Windows 4.x users are ALLOWED access to this page! 
>> 
>> When I try to access the page using Windows 3.11, I get fowarded
>> to this page instead:
>> http://search.support.microsoft.com/support/misc/unsupported.asp
>> 
>> Can this be legal to deny this page (support) to Windows 3.x users
>> while providing it for Windows 4.x (a.k.a. 95/98) users?
>> 
>Strange, I just tried using Netscape 4.7 and Mozilla 14 (Netscape 5)
>both linux versions without any problems.
>
>-- 
>Thomas O.

Try visiting it using lynx. On Tue Apr 25 01:17:20 EDT 2000, this url
redirected lynx, and I would assume other browsers it doesn't like to the
unsupported.asp mentioned above. Ironically this results in a 404 error
message. Go figure...

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