On Sun, 17 Jul 2011, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On 7/17/11, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > >> Comp: You are right, FC replaces it. > > Well, yes, I know all (most?) DOSes have both, but FC can do ASCII > (default) or binary (/b), so I don't ever use COMP.
In DOS 2-4, PC DOS had COMP (which it had since 1.x) and MS-DOS had FC. I think COMP first appears in MS-DOS 3.3; FC doesn't appear in IBM's version until 5. >> Choice: Important for batch scripts. >> Exe2bin: Not all software uses compilers which create COM directly. PC DOS 2000 doesn't even *have* exe2bin. > But, IIRC, this was verbatim the version from OpenWatcom. My point was > that people who are developers already have it (or similar). If we're > going to include it, we should also include "link" (like MS-DOS used > to). Also, there's no DOSSHELL or BASIC there either, and nobody > complained. So some of these things should really be removed. I do > really think exe2bin is useless here. DR DOS never had BASIC, and PC DOS 7 drops it (I *think* 6.x still had basic.com/basica.com on the IBM side, after dropping qbasic). And FreeDOS *does* have a GEM package, right? That covers DOSSHELL - it's more or less an enhanced version of DR DOS's counterpart of it (i.e., ViewMax). -uso. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on "Lean Startup Secrets Revealed." This video shows you how to validate your ideas, optimize your ideas and identify your business strategy. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appsumosfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
