!Re: Nuke Redmond!

From: Sipke de Wal <sipke_at_wxs.nl>
Date: Fri Apr 7 19:09:06 2000

Try running Wordperfects Drawperfect 2.0 even today unde DOS 7.0 without
adequate FCBS (min: FCBS=2,0 in config.sys) and it won't work.

FCBS are still among us, like the rudimentary footbones in a whale.

Sipke



----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 12:33 AM
Subject: Re: !Re: Nuke Redmond!


> "Sipke de Wal" <sipke_at_wxs.nl> wrote:
> > Even now MS-DOS still has the old FCBS. These are the File Control Block
> > structure that
> > CP/M uses to keep files open. Some old Turbo Pascal 3.0 software still
uses
> > it.
> > MS-DOS 3.0 mostly did away with that and intruduced filehandles.
>
> File handles were introduced in MS-DOS 2.0. In 2.x there were reportedly
> still a few things you could only do with FCBs, but I don't happen to know
> what they were.
Received on Fri Apr 07 2000 - 19:09:06 BST