On 2004-02-24, Aitor Santamaria Merino wrote: > Most people doesn't know that this difference even exists, and get > puzzled when they open binary data files with TYPE. > This is my point, data is not separated (where perhaps it should). > COUNTRY.SYS and KEYBOARD.SYS are (mostly, I seem to recall that > Microsoft's KEYBOARD.SYS may contain even some embedded code) data, > I'm sure that someone has tried out there to do > DEVICE=COUNTRY.SYS > in CONFIG.SYS :)
:-) Trivia: Not MS-DOS/PC DOS, but the DR-DOS 7.02+ COUNTRY.SYS file actually has such a tiny code stub in order to avoid a system crash in case someone tries this - it actually happened... All it does is display the build info and exit safely. Greetings, Matthias -- <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html; http://mpaul.drdos.org "Programs are poems for computers." ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
