In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/21/2005
at 09:22 PM, "R.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>That's confirm common opinion about mainframes. File size requires
>advanced services,
While on the PC some things are difficult that are easy on the
mainframe.
>Jeeez, I like Windows.
De gustibus non disputandem est!
>A lot of errors, built-in stupidity, but I don't
>have to review migration guide,
You just accept that some things are broken when you switch to a new
release? I don't know what world you live in, but there have been a
lot of compatibility issues between various versions of windoze. Maybe
m$ *should* start publishing migration guides.
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/22/2005
at 09:55 AM, "R.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Nothing. I mentioned DOS system, with partition limited to 2GB, and
>filesize limited to 4GB (size >2GB isavailable on network drives,
>i.e. on Netware). Function returns 32-bit (unsigned) value
K3wl. So what happens with files greater than 4 GiB? You run into the
same sorts of compatibility issues.
>BTW: DOS was single-program, so multiple opens in fact require
>network.
Close but no cigar. PC/MS-DOS has had task switchers available since
the early days, and they expose the issue of multiple opens.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
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