7 Apr
2000
7 Apr
'00
7:09 p.m.
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(a)brouhaha.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 12:33 AM
Subject: Re: !Re: Nuke Redmond!
"Sipke de Wal" <sipke(a)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.