Hallo Herr Ralf Quint, am Montag, 28. Dezember 2020 um 17:06 schrieben Sie:
> On 12/28/2020 2:39 AM, tom ehlert wrote: >> Hallo Herr Ralf Quint, >> >> am Montag, 28. Dezember 2020 um 10:59 schrieben Sie: >> >>> On 12/27/2020 10:54 PM, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel wrote: >>>> Hey, all! Just a question I've never seen addressed here - or anywhere >>>> else, for that matter. >>>> >>>> Was there ever any "official" format for a shared runtime library >>>> under MS-DOS? Windows has .DLL files, Linux has .KO files, and MS-DOS >>>> had... what, exactly? In all my years DOSsing I've never heard of >>>> anything official like this, so I'm pretty sure there was no such >>>> thing (unless you count a TSR, but that's not really what I'm after) >>>> but I figured it doesn't hurt to ask you folks, as you have more years >>>> under various flavors of DOS than I. >>>> >>>> Any constructive feedback would be appreciated! :D >>> Well, it is very simple. There is no such thing under DOS... >> This almost would have been my answer as well. >> >> But I recently learned >> http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=17354 >> that there exists Borland BGI (Borland Graphics Interface) drivers >> that are arguably equivalent to DLLs (for Borland compilers) as they >> are separately compiled binaries. >> So this is not a DOS, but Borland standard. >> >> I know of no other example of this. >> > Yeah, that came to my mind too, but then it is commonly referred to as > drivers, so it is a border line case of this kind of functionality, but > it is not a "shared runtime library under DOS"... 'drivers' usually refers to functionality available to everyone, and the interface are defined by the OS. BGI 'graphic drivers' were only open to Borland compilers; I'd call them runtime libraries. but this is more wording then actually functionality difference. no point to have a long thread discussing this ;) Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
