Re: [Freedos-devel] Do not use any code from ms-dos releASE!

2014-03-27 Thread Charles Belhumeur
Tough line to walk folks! You wanna clone DOS but yet you don't want to be tainted by any suggestions you owe anything to DOS! Think that over a little. Say it to yourself and see how it sounds. It doesn't matter what the OS is for a lot of stuff. The Intel chips and architecture are what

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do not use any code from ms-dos releASE!

2014-03-27 Thread Dave Kerber
-Original Message- From: Charles Belhumeur [mailto:chbelhumeur2...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2014 2:12 AM To: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Do not use any code from ms-dos releASE! ... IT in our lives like

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do not use any code from ms-dos release!

2014-03-27 Thread Michael B. Brutman
On 3/26/2014 11:11 PM, Charles Belhumeur wrote: Tough line to walk folks! You wanna clone DOS but yet you don't want to be tainted by any suggestions you owe anything to DOS! Think that over a little. Say it to yourself and see how it sounds. Sure it sounds funny, but the funny part is not

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do not use any code from ms-dos release!

2014-03-27 Thread Travis Siegel
Bah. I couldn't download the stupid thing anyhow, because apparently, ya gotta login just to read the blog post. Thanks, but no thanks. I do not now, nor do I wish to have an ms account. I'll pass, thanks. (same for google) If I can't hit the page, click download, and have the file

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do not use any code from ms-dos release!

2014-03-27 Thread Louis Santillan
Does this help your screen reader issue? http://www.bttr-software.de/freesoft/z_more1.htm#specialty Also, not FreeDOS, see if https://code.google.com/p/openpine/ helps you with AccessDOS built-in. -L On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Travis Siegel tsie...@softcon.com wrote: Bah. I couldn't

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do not use any code from ms-dos release!

2014-03-27 Thread Ralf Quint
On 3/27/2014 1:24 PM, Travis Siegel wrote: And, anyway, dos 2.0 did things way differently than 3.3+ , especially for file access, (fcbs anyone) You might want to upgrade your knowledge a bit. Since PC/MS-DOS 2.0, FCBS are only for backwards compatibility still around. FCBS were the way to