Eric Auer schrieb:
> Hi Michael,
> 
>>>>> I thought nothing usable besides the io.sys,
>>>>> sort.exe and sys.com sources from DOS 3.3 had turned up...
> 
>>>> No, even MS-DOS 6.0.
>>>> Also source for xcopy and so on.
>>> I said *usable*, as in compilable.
>> I haven't tested to compile as I am to lazy to setup a build
>> environment, the older the software the harder it seams to get the build
>> environment. No idea if it needs some dependencies or so.
>>
>> However, it looks pretty complete, even emm386, dosshell etc. included.
> 
> Why on earth would you want to compile 17 year old stolen
> source code if you can just steal the pre-compiled Windows
> of your flatmate today? ;-) Or for example download MS DOS
> from a warez page etc etc. Not my taste, of course... ;-).

Well, compiling makes indeed no point until the copyright cleared.

But you can use ms-dos source code as a reference to get freedos finally
compatible with ms-dos as it's one of the goals.

-mr

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