From: "Matthias Paul" Organization: IBH, RWTH-Aachen To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 19:27:29 GMT+0100 Subject: Re: [opendos] Wishlist v2.0 Reply-to: Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de Message-ID: <3DC620122E3@ibh.rwth-aachen.de> Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk Hi! [64KB limitations] > Colin W. Glenn wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Matthias Paul wrote: > > > On Thu, 13 Mar 1997 21:58:49, Mike A. Harris wrote: > > > > you ever tried to sort a file > 64k? SUCKS!!!!!!!! > > > (Some of these 64KB limitations have been fixed in current > > > versions of MS-DOS/PC-DOS, either... They learn slowly, but... ;-) ) > > Not here, (still) running 6.3 and sort complains, most annoying > > when I use the format: > > > > type filename.ext |sort >filename.ext > > > > It kills my file in the process. Of course, you should not attempt to overwrite files by itself. While some COMMAND.COM implementations might allow for this, MS-DOS/PC-DOS COMMAND.COM does not. Remember that hint in old DOS handbooks: Don't copy files to itself, even not when combining files. (However, this worked at least for one out of 4DOS/NDOS or Novell DOS/OpenDOS COMMAND.COM, I cannot remember right now.) In the meantime, I have had a look at my NWDOSTIP.TXT file to check out remaining 64KB limitations: FIND > 64KB MORE > 64KB SORT > 64KB MS-DOS/PC-DOS ?.? no no no MS-DOS 6.2x: yes yes no MS-DOS 7 yes yes ?? PC-DOS 6.3 ?? ?? no PC-DOS 7 ?? ?? ?? DR DOS ?.? ?? ?? ?? DR DOS 6.0 yes yes yes Novell DOS 7 yes yes yes Caldera OpenDOS 7.01 yes yes yes [MPDOSZIP/NWDOSTIP] Since I have spoken several times of NWDOSTIP.TXT, I should announce this formally to this forum: ;-) If some of you need details on tons of undocumented Novell DOS/OpenDOS features, including *ALL* internals of their powerful CONFIG.SYS language (somewhat similar to BASIC) and hundreds of other exiting things, you should have a look at my comprehensive MPDOSTIP.ZIP tips & tricks documentation project, especially the NWDOSTIP.TXT file (at present ca. 380 pages to print). Of course, this is copyrighted material, but at present it's still available for free from my web- page and other sites. Reports are very welcome... Unfortunately, it's written in German language, so some of you might have to do a good job in guessing... Sorry, it's much too large to translate all of it. :-( (Any unemployed translators in the list... ;-) ) [NECPINW] Besides, for those of you with a NEC Pinwriter: Today, I released NECPINW.CPI 1.06, a new version of my FreeWare DOS codepage file for the NEC Pinwriter series, preinstalled for DR DOS 6.0, Novell DOS 7, and Caldera OpenDOS 7.01. Should show up tomorrow on my web-page... Reports welcome... If you know of other unsupported printer families and can provide info material, please contact me for enhancements... Have fun, Matthias PS: Some people have corrected me, that Windows 3.1x in it's enhanced 386 mode actually does pre-emptive multitask DOS applics, each in a single virtual DOS machine, while only the Windows applics are scheduled cooperative. Win95 also should pre-emptive multitask 32bit applics. Fine, but what, if Windows' TASKMAN/PROGMAN crash due to a hanging Windows system??? ------------------------------------------------------------------ Matthias Paul ! My eMail address has changed. For some time ! Ubierstrasse 28 ! mails to former ! D-50321 BRUEHL ! will be forwarded to the new address. ! eMail: WWW : URL: http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokger.html ------------------------------------------------------------------