Mail Archives: opendos/1997/03/16/22:27:44
On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Matthias Paul wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Mar 1997 21:58:49, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>
> > ... The utilities will be the first to be ported. Have
> > you ever tried to sort a file > 64k? SUCKS!!!!!!!!
>
> You're right when speaking of MS-DOS/PC-DOS, but fortunately
> Novell DOS (and probably OpenDOS, too) have no problems with
> pipes greater 64KB, e.g. with SORT, MORE, FIND. Of course,
> you need enough swap space for temp files...
>
> (Some of these 64KB limitations have been fixed in current
> versions of MS-DOS/PC-DOS, either... They learn slowly, but... ;-) )
Well, I'm using DOS 6.22 & OpenDOS. I don't know about OpenDOS
but 6.22 DOESN'T allow > 64k. Either way, a 32bit protected mode
version of all of the utilities would be very useful to SOME of
us who do want it. Since someone is bound to port the stuff to
DJGPP, there is little point in arguing about wether or not it is
really needed or not.
I doubt that it would be very hard to port the stuff to DJGPP
anyways. In fact, I'm sure most stuff would port easily. Some
stuff would probably just directly compile into DJGPP with no
modification. That's my opinion anyway. I'll probably port some
of the stuff myself if no-one else is.
TTYL
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