On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Pat Villani wrote: > tom ehlert wrote: > > >yes, it was interesting to see Pat watching this list at all. > > > > > > I've been watching again for several months now, but "the new HP" keeps > me too busy to participate. I just stick my nose in when I see > something that I think may cause unneeded pain later on. I'm not active > and stay out of your affairs. What you don't need is more email noise > when trying to decide what to do.
I think it's great to see you around here Pat, I had feared you had completely lost interest in FreeDOS, but apparently these projects stick on you a bit. What I find nice is that even after all those changes the "Bird's Eye View of DOS-C" as in your book is still current. That means to me that the design is sound, and I very much respect that. Although I've always been puzzled about stylistic issues (e.g. why use COUNT/UCOUNT/BYTE/VOID instead of int/unsigned/char/void, are these left-overs from K&R compilers on M68K machines with Amiga's exec/types.h?). I like lowercase letters better than capitals, and prefer the style used in the Linux kernel source (they only use u8/u16/u32 where it absolutely *has* to be 8/16/32 bits, in structures), but, as Tom said, the payback to change all this isn't big enough. Bart ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list Freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
