Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 00:27:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
To: Bruce Morgen <editor AT juno DOT com>
cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: This device driver fails under OD
In-Reply-To: <19970408.163726.6391.0.editor@juno.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970412002240.309M-100000@capslock.com>
Organization: Total disorganization.
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On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Bruce Morgen wrote:

> The ancient PC Magazine freeware device 
> driver REDD.SYS fails under OD.  Instead 
> of stuffing the keyboard buffer with a 
> command for execution by the shell (I 
> use 4DOS), it stuffs the command 
> followed by a long string of space (20h) 
> characters until the speaker beeps like 
> mad with the overflow.  Any assembler 
> jocks interested in looking into this 
> and either patching the driver or 
> reporting an OD bug?

[GIGABYTE of assembler source SNIPPED]

I get over 400 mails a day, and don't appreciate large email
postings like that.  I'm sure that almost everyone else on the
list feels similarly.  I think a more proper way would have been
for you to post the above quoted part, and then either put the
code in a file on your web page and include a URL, or to at least
ask people to mail you personally for the source.  At a very
minimum you could have ZIPPED and then UUENCODED or MIME attached
the file.  Most people just ignore and delete postings of such a
rediculous size.

This letter is not intended as a flame, but rather to try and be
informative and cut down on large mails on the list.

TTYL

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