Re: [Freedos-devel] Do not use any code from ms-dos release!

On 3/27/2014 1:24 PM, Travis Siegel wrote: > And, anyway, dos 2.0 did things way differently than 3.3+ , especially > for file access, (fcbs anyone) You might want to upgrade your knowledge a bit. Since PC/MS-DOS 2.0, FCBS are only for backwards compatibility still around. FCBS were the way to ac

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do not use any code from ms-dos release!

Does this help your screen reader issue? Also, not FreeDOS, see if helps you with AccessDOS built-in. -L On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Travis Siegel wrote: > Bah. I couldn't download the st

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do not use any code from ms-dos release!

Bah. I couldn't download the stupid thing anyhow, because apparently, ya gotta login just to read the blog post. Thanks, but no thanks. I do not now, nor do I wish to have an ms account. I'll pass, thanks. (same for google) If I can't hit the page, click download, and have the file sho

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do not use any code from ms-dos release!

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Michael B. Brutman wrote: [SNIP] > > This is a potential legal issue. The message is clear and not > contradictory in any way. Do not jeopardize FreeDOS's clean lineage by > looking at non-open source code and then trying contributing to FreeDOS. > For philosophic

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do not use any code from ms-dos release!

On 3/26/2014 11:11 PM, Charles Belhumeur wrote: > Tough line to walk folks! You wanna clone DOS but yet you don't want > "to be tainted" by any suggestions you owe anything to DOS! Think > that over a little. Say it to yourself and see how it sounds. Sure it sounds funny, but the funny part is

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do not use any code from ms-dos releASE!

> -Original Message- > From: Charles Belhumeur [mailto:chbelhumeur2...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2014 2:12 AM > To: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. > Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Do not use any code from ms-dos releASE! > ... > IT in our lives like