On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 17:43:39 -0500 "Sam Ewalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>I just read an interesting article in the Toronto Star by Steve Lohr >of the New York Times Service. It's a portrait of Chris Jones the >Microsoft Team Leader for XP. He's 32 years old and is described as >a "rising star" who previously was involved with Internet Explorer. >(incidently there were over 1000 programmers working on XP). > >Anyway, in the article, Jones, who has worked at Micrsoft since 1989, >confesses to a surprising fondness for the command line. The article >ends with this statement: > > But Windows XP leader concedes he still has a fondness for the old > DOS-style command line. "It's still the fastest way to do things." > Jones said. > > >Quite an admission from the Microsoft XP team leader! What it is commonly known as a "DOS box" is, in fact, the Windows console. (at least since Win95). I am currently using a Windows port of the AVR-GCC cross compiler. This is the well-known GCC (in the Unix world), built as a cross compiler for AVR microcontrollers. It was built using MINGW libraries. In order to use it, the GNU make and Bourne shell had to be ported too. It runs (of course) in a DOS box, from the command line, but it can't be run in the pure DOS mode. It issues the famous "This application cannot run in DOS mode" message. I don't know what tools the guys from Microsoft are using, but I believe that, when writing an operating system, they simply hsve to use the command line from time to time :-) the command line :-) Cristian Burneci
