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- From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
- Subject: Re: 4DOS diversion (Was Re: A batch programming contest for you)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.184217.11378@uwasa.fi>
- Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
- References: <1992Aug18.162657.27453@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <1992Aug19.132543.7617@swlvx2.msd.ray.com> <4082@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us>
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 18:42:17 GMT
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- >In article <1992Aug19.132543.7617@swlvx2.msd.ray.com>, rgc@swlrau.msd.ray.com (RICK CARLE) writes:
- >> On the other hand, the solution to perhaps half the msdos problems seems
- >> to be replacement of command.com by 4dos. The solution to half the
- >> remaining half is replacement of msdos by drdos. After that you need
-
- The unfortunate side of all this are the inevitable compatibility
- problems. Without going much into the details I just run into one
- in a TP program. Part of the error codes are dependent (returned
- from) the command interpreter. (The particular case was different
- IOResult values retuned when running with MsDos and with DRDOS).
- Not very net from a programmer's point of view. I have no
- experience with 4DOS, but I would be very taken aback if there were
- no similar problems at all.
-
- I am not coasting for any particular solution for the others. Just
- pointing out that there are compatibility problems of with the
- alternative interpreters. Therefore I will continue writing my own
- programs for MsDos (with command.com). Not because it would be
- particularly good (it is not), but because it is the most prevalent
- by an "astronomical" margin.
-
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- Prof. Timo Salmi
- Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
- Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
- Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun ; SF-65101, Finland
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