From: remove DOT this DOT part DOT AND DOT the DOT underscore_hacker DOT jack AT juno DOT com (Kurt McKee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: X-DOS: anybody knows about it? (small free DOS)
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As far as I know, you will never find a DOS of any sort that
implements '.' or '..', since the '.' means the current directory
(which can just be represented by '\' or '/' depending on your OS, dos
or linux), and you'll never find '..' on the root since '..' means
"parent directory". This is obviously impossible when at the root of
the drive!

-- Kurt McKee

On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 16:22:51 -0300, salvador <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
wrote:

>Hi All:
>
>  I have a PC-104 device (9.5x9.5 cm PC for industrial purposes) with a very
>strange DOS loaded. The name of this DOS is X-DOS, it is small (mem reports
>618160 bytes of free memory) and is full of simple but useful details (i.e. the
>SET command reports how big is the environment, how much is used and the
>available space, dir uses colors, all helps are colored and interactive, etc).
>  This DOS seems to be done by Thierry Giron of HBS Corp. is dated in 1991 and
>have quite nice features, one is integrated XMS driver (no device driver
>needed), all the tools are compressed and command.com is 26281 bytes long.
>  I successfuly runned things like "redir -o test ls" and it works (seems to be
>better than Win2k ;-). I also installed and runned my editor (a non-trivial
>djgpp application).
>  I want to know if anybody uses it, until now I found only one incopatibility
>with djgpp (I guess there are more). Is quite funny, but this DOS does *not*
>invent the stupid ". " and ".." entries for the root directory, it makes my
>editor to fail to display the contents of the root directory, ls also fails.
>According to ls the error is EACCES and I think we should make libc more robust
>about it.
>
>SET
>
>--
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>

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