[Freedos-user] Re : Freedos-user Digest, Vol 581, Issue 2

2012-01-30 Thread Bertho Grandpied
Jeffrey wrote: > Are there any plans for adding a shell escape character(like \ in UNIX)  in FreeCOM? Left to be answered by those in the know... > If so, what character would be a suitable candidate? If so, I think compatibility to 4DOS should be considered. FYI and IIRC, 4DOS uses the Contro

Re: [Freedos-user] Escape character (reposted)

2012-01-30 Thread Bertho Grandpied
Reposting, reason : corrected Subject line. Apologies for my previous mistake, and for any inconvenience caused by double-mailing. Jeffrey wrote: > Are there any plans for adding a shell escape character(like \ in UNIX)  in FreeCOM? Left to be answered by those in the know... > If so, what ch

Re: [Freedos-user] USB/ASPI to DOS, 4K sectors.

2012-01-30 Thread BretJ
Eric Auer-3 wrote: > > ... > I find it a very good idea in USB drivers to support the ASPI API so other > drivers and client apps can use > that to access the drives in question :-) > I disagree. ASPI and INT 13h are essentially competitive technologies, not complementary. If a disk can be a