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Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 14:25:30 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: "nimrod a. abing" <synflood AT eudoramail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: gdb problem or just silly me - please help
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On Mon, 8 May 2000, nimrod a. abing wrote:

> >> > So, if Microsoft would want to add this support to DOS, they'd need to
> >> > rewrite the Windows file I/O code so that it would work inside DOS,
> >> > and then add that code to MSDOS.DOS and IO.SYS.
> >> 
> 
> I don't see the file MSDOS.DOS on Win9x?

It's a hidden file, so many directory-listing utilities by default don't 
show it.  But it is there...

> Do you mean MSDOS.SYS? That's just a text file now in Win9x.

Yes, MSDOS.SYS is now a text file, which is why what was MSDOS.SYS in 
older versions of DOS is now called MSDOS.DOS.

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