DOS ain't dead

GZIPDATE.REX (uses TOUCH) (Developers)

posted by Arjay, 22.03.2010, 00:40

> we have upcoming WASM 1.9, YASM's wimpy mode,
> [snip], NASM, NoMySo, LZASM, etc.
Indeed, there are so many choices now... it really is pick your flavor :)

> Tell me if you're impatient,
No rush from my side particularly as I was actually thinking more of others when I made this comment. I have plenty of asm sources to look/work with here but more sources is always good :)

> sure it didn't assemble something incorrectly. (NDISASM to the rescue!)
I properly tried NDISASM for the first time yesterday and to be honest I wasn't that impressed.

> Win9x's int 21h, 7143h accepts ASCIIZ filename instead of handle, so at
> least I'm not alone in thinking a name is more obvious.
7143h - Ah yes the world of long filename interrupts. The world of older interrupts is all very different - indeed it amuses me to this day to think that parts of DOS now are still CP/M, e.g. Int 20h. SCP 86-DOS anyone? (docs). CP/M being inspired by Unix... things just go around in circles

> P.S. Charles Dye's Touch indeed does touch readonly, the "problem"
More interesting tip bits. Thx

> and requires DOS 3 (instead of DOS 2).
Supporting anything before DOS 3 is unusual. I remember years ago looking at supporting DOS 2 myself but very quickly realizing that DOS 3 brought along far too many useful/important features that it simply wasn't worth my time trying to support anything before it. That said I like providing backwards compatibility in personal projects but you have to draw the line somewhere at times. I think most folks agree would agree DOS 3 is a good line!


> But I still like FD touch too. It's
> probably one of (if not the) oldest utils contributed for FreeDOS that's
> still in use!

Complete thread:

• TOUCH.COM 1.4.3 (minor fix: debug script) - Rugxulo, 02.03.2010, 01:10 (Developers)
  • GZIPDATE.REX (uses TOUCH) - Rugxulo, 02.03.2010, 01:22
    • GZIPDATE.REX (uses TOUCH) - Arjay, 11.03.2010, 17:09
      • GZIPDATE.REX (uses TOUCH) - Rugxulo, 11.03.2010, 19:41
        • GZIPDATE.REX (uses TOUCH) - Arjay, 18.03.2010, 16:31
          • GZIPDATE.REX (uses TOUCH) - Rugxulo, 19.03.2010, 00:58
            • GZIPDATE.REX (uses TOUCH) - Arjay, 22.03.2010, 00:40
              • GZIPDATE.REX (uses TOUCH) - Rugxulo, 22.03.2010, 17:47
                • GZIPDATE.REX (uses TOUCH) / Tim Paterson / DOS v3 required - Arjay, 23.03.2010, 16:25
                  • GZIPDATE.REX (uses TOUCH) / Tim Paterson / DOS v3 required - Rugxulo, 23.03.2010, 16:59
                    • [deleted] - Arjay, 23.03.2010, 19:32
                      • TOUCH 1.4.4 - Rugxulo, 07.04.2010, 00:05
    • GZIPDATE.REX (uses TOUCH) - Rugxulo, 07.04.2010, 01:06