4 Mar
2005
4 Mar
'05
5:25 p.m.
Tom Jennings wrote:
Don't blame us! It's not like there was a lot of documentation* or published
standards or anything. Hell, a common way to figure out how to work the
machine in the early days was by loading programs into DEBUG!
* for people without money to buy it :-)
--
Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/
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That was
barely honored outside of Microsoft-land (and sometimes not
even). I would wager that less than 1% of all DOS command-line
programs honor SWITCHAR.
Yeah, why use OS services? They just get in the way!