Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/08/02/15:23:31
Hi All:
I have a PC-104 device (9.5x9.5 cm PC for industrial purposes) with a very
strange DOS loaded. The name of this DOS is X-DOS, it is small (mem reports
618160 bytes of free memory) and is full of simple but useful details (i.e. the
SET command reports how big is the environment, how much is used and the
available space, dir uses colors, all helps are colored and interactive, etc).
This DOS seems to be done by Thierry Giron of HBS Corp. is dated in 1991 and
have quite nice features, one is integrated XMS driver (no device driver
needed), all the tools are compressed and command.com is 26281 bytes long.
I successfuly runned things like "redir -o test ls" and it works (seems to be
better than Win2k ;-). I also installed and runned my editor (a non-trivial
djgpp application).
I want to know if anybody uses it, until now I found only one incopatibility
with djgpp (I guess there are more). Is quite funny, but this DOS does *not*
invent the stupid ". " and ".." entries for the root directory, it makes my
editor to fail to display the contents of the root directory, ls also fails.
According to ls the error is EACCES and I think we should make libc more robust
about it.
SET
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