DOS "libraries" (was APPLEVISION Monitor)

From: Douglas H. Quebbeman <dquebbeman_at_acm.org>
Date: Tue May 7 10:31:38 2002

> And thusly Ben Franchuk spake:
> >
> > What pisses me off is the fact that both systems use dynamic libraries.
> > This makes a real mess of things. I liked dos -- you have a program
> > it runs from the .exe non of this you need version blah blah blah ...
> >
>
> DOS sometimes needed library files - take 32-bit protected mode. You need to
> have a DOS extender file in the path or directory of the executable.


Not just that- the Microsoft BASIC compiler provided two modes
of compilation- one that produced HUGE stand-alone binaries, and
one that kept the HUGE chunk of common code in a runtime-library.
That library had to either be in the current directory or somewhere
along the path...

-dq
Received on Tue May 07 2002 - 10:31:38 BST