Hallo Bart,
merge in some changes from UNSTABLE
If Bart doesn't like some changes, I don't mind if they're not merged them into "stable" ;-)
I wonder about those creation time set removals. It looks like your removing a useful feature here. Sure a reason given is "MSDOS 7.10 doesn't do this". Well, I say, who cares about this specific DOS,
Isn't *this* specific OS what we try to emulate as closely as possible (including even its bugs)?
many other OS'es *do* set the creation time. Did it hurt that FreeDOS did this?
It didn't actually do that. FreeDOS did *always* set the creation time *equal* to the write time. So the creation time didn't hold even a single of bit of information and was therefore misleading. Making it set the creation time *only* once, when a file is created, is surprisingly difficult (I tried and failed), and is not required for a DOS anyway. Let's not try to be bigger catholics than the pope.
Maybe it should be a config.sys option if it did hurt in certain (documented) circumstances.
Too complex. I like the KISS principle (Keep It Simple, Stupid = KISS :)
which is pretty annoying if you check out on Linux -- I'll really have to push a patch to Steffen to allow FreeCOM not to choke on LF-ended batch files...
Now when AUTOEXEC.BAT is just one line ending with LF, not CRLF, FreeCOM happily processes it ;-)
Regards, Lucho
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