Re: [OT] sigs (was: Are there any 8051 C++ compilers ?)

From: David Brown (david_at_no.westcontrol.spam.com)
Date: 08/10/04

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    Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:05:12 +0200

    "Meindert Sprang" <mhsprang@NOcustomSPAMware.nl> wrote in message
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    > "David Brown" <david@no.westcontrol.spam.com> wrote in message
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    > > While it is easy to get a Start/Run box without wading through menus
    > > (<windows-key> + R), you can't start most windows programs by just
    typing
    > > their names - you've got to know the full path name in all its
    > absurdities,
    > > because MS has failed to produce an os and file system that can support
    > > symbolic links and can work with large numbers of files in a directory.
    >
    > Well, a simple c:\bat in your path and a batch file for every program you
    > want to start will do the trick....
    >

    Mine's called "d:\utils", and has about 400 batch files and small utility
    programs... and then there's d:\cygwin\bin... (I'm a command-line junky).
    Bat files are a workaround - ineligant, but they work.

    > > Why on earth would you want to "boot to DOS" to run a DOS program?
    What's
    > > wrong with using a command prompt window, that has worked for every DOS
    > > program (except some games) from Win95 through to XP?
    >
    > I stil use a few old DOS programs that open files by using FCB's instead
    of
    > filehandles. FCB's disappeared from NT4 and higher. So you would *have to*
    > run either DOS or something "as low as" win 95 or ME.
    >

    Have you had a lookat DOSBox http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/ ? It's mainly
    aimed at running games, but it might work for your old programs, and will
    apparently run fine under pretty much any windows fork (as well as *nix). I
    haven't tried it myself, though.

    > Meindert
    >
    >

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