Message-ID: <000001c16b8a$237ae500$027efea9@atlantis>
From: "Matthias Paul" <Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
References: <000b01c1671e$ab4cc720$027efea9 AT atlantis>
Subject: Re: DRDOS TIMEOUT, YESCHAR, NOCHAR , GETKEY, and ONERROR (Was: Re: DR-DOS + QEMM)
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 14:55:22 +0100
Organization: University of Technology, RWTH Aachen, Germany
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Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

On 2001-11-07 I wrote:
 
> The given query answer is assumed on timeouts in any kind of
> Yes/No queries during CONFIG.SYS, either those explicitly
> invoked by using
>                     
>  ?["query_text"] config_directive [=] ...
> 
> or
> 
>  config_directive?["query_text"] [=] ...
>                     
> or implicitly in the normal F8 single-stepping mode or the
> new DR-DOS 7.02+ F7 trace-into-single-stepping mode.

For completeness, these CONFIG.SYS ? queries are supported by
DR DOS 3.41+ (since 1989-04-11) while support for the optional
"query_text" was added with DR DOS 5.0+ (since 1990-03-03) to
come even with the enhanced query syntax which was supported
in batchjobs even in 3.41.

 Matthias

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