Easy: just for going to the extreme, write a DOS API extension function that checks the drive passed as argument in BX. ;-) Anyway, I am of Eric's opinion: you cannot write a complete, good CHKDSK code in that few lines.
Aitor 2006/9/5, Imre Leber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well i am still kind of im(/de)pressed that FreeDOS chkdsk has some 300000 > lines of code and that a chkdsk in reactos takes only about 100 lines. > > Imre > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Eric Auer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Sent: Tuesday, September 5, 2006 12:56 PM > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS > > > > > >Hi Imre, > > > >nobody would complain if DEFRAG needed a 386 and XMS > >to do defragging on FAT32... Ever seen a FAT32 drive > >in a PC-XT...? And about Wine for DOS: Okay, with > >HXRT, you can even run some Windows programs in DOS, > >but if you have reasonably new hardware, you can > >equally well use ReactOS or Linux/Wine for that... > >DOS should rather be used for what DOS is good at :-). > > > >Eric > > > >> They are wrong about reactos though. > >> Building FreeDOS is WAY more difficult then building reactos. We had > >> to defragment 80Gb on 8086 with 256 kb RAM. > >> In reactos there is LOTS of memory and a very high code reuse. > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > >Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > >Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > >http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > >_______________________________________________ > >Freedos-devel mailing list > >[email protected] > >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
