Mail Archives: opendos/1997/07/07/08:03:08
On Mon, 07 Jul 1997, Martin G. Pircher wrote:
> > It is Win95 compatible at both the API and physical disk levels.
> > It supports all Int 21h 71xx long name extensions.
Great!
> When Caldera releases the sources to the new kernel with
> their changes (will they?) we should think _now_ on bringing it together
> with Matthias changes sometimes, otherwise we have 2 totally
> different version, and there's a lot of work to bring them together!
>
> Maybe there's a way that Matthias version could be easily implemented
> in the Caldera's one?
I hope so (but vice versa)... ;-)
Well, as announced I'm mainly working on IBMBIO.COM which does
not affect LFN support very much (except some new possible
CONFIG.SYS directives). Though there are literally hundreds
of changes in 'my' IBMBIO.COM, I think, at present we won't
have many problems to put LFN support into it, if it actually
would affect IBMBIO.COM. I'll check this up with Caldera.
> I haven't tried now, but if i can use the command.com now as
> Win95 DOS box, it seems COD is moving toward Win95 compatibility.
Yup. The new IBMBIO.COM also has alot of enhancements in direction
Win95.
> Has anyone already tried to use it instead of DOS7?
Not yet, but someday we'll get there... But we won't stop there.
I'm sure.
Matthias
PS1. The binary alpha version of IBMBIO.COM should show up this week.
Sources will come later, since I would like to complete some
of the features, I started to implement - but unfortunately
have very little time at the moment. Also, some features
need some more testage. You won't get lucky with interim
sources, will you?
PS2. Anybody knowing what's going on with the 'Weekly digests'?
I have temporary switched over to them because of my other
work load, but I haven't received any digests for more than
a week now... Hope, not to loose your contributions (but -
no - please don't CC: me...)
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