[Freedos-user] Re : Freedos-user Digest, Vol 581, Issue 2
Jeffrey ellsnjel@ao... wrote: Are there any plans for adding a shell escape character(like \ in UNIX) in FreeCOM? Left to be answered by those in the know... If so, what character would be a suitable candidate? If so, I think compatibility to 4DOS should be considered. FYI and IIRC, 4DOS uses the Control-X combo (prints as an up-arrow). You might consider using 4DOS 8 as a direct replacement for FreeCOM. Hth -- Czerno -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Escape character (reposted)
Reposting, reason : corrected Subject line. Apologies for my previous mistake, and for any inconvenience caused by double-mailing. Jeffrey ellsnjel@.. wrote: Are there any plans for adding a shell escape character(like \ in UNIX) in FreeCOM? Left to be answered by those in the know... If so, what character would be a suitable candidate? If so, I think compatibility to 4DOS should be considered. FYI and IIRC, 4DOS uses the Control-X combo (prints as an up-arrow). You might also consider using 4DOS 8 as a direct replacement for FreeCOM. Hth -- Czerno -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] USB/ASPI to DOS, 4K sectors.
Eric Auer-3 wrote: ... I find it a very good idea in USB drivers to support the ASPI API so other drivers and client apps can use that to access the drives in question :-) I disagree. ASPI and INT 13h are essentially competitive technologies, not complementary. If a disk can be accessed via one of the two methods, the other method isn't (or at least shouldn't be) necessary. Implementing both methods for the same disk is a waste of resources. However, in the particular case of DOS, I think the preferred method, by far, is INT 13h (at least in the case of DASD/hard/flash drives). There simply aren't very many ASPI utilities for DOS, and likely never will be. All of the common low-level DOS utilities that everyone is already familiar with (FDISK, NTFS drivers, caching programs like UIDE and LBACACHE, etc.) require INT 13h. Eric Auer-3 wrote: Once an ASPI to block device driver is loaded, FORMAT should work as well. As said, no free open driver for the ASPI to block connection exists yet, but it seems to have relatively low complexity. I think that's true for high-level formats (the kind done by FORMAT). Low-level formats, though rarely needed these days, do require INT 13h or an ASPI-specific utility. At least in DOS, I don't see where any value is created by adding an ASPI interface if an INT 13h interface already exists. The reverse is not true, however. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/USB-ASPI-to-DOS%2C-4K-sectors.-tp33223596p33229775.html Sent from the FreeDOS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
