5 Jan
2005
5 Jan
'05
3:43 p.m.
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
Vintage Computer Festival declared on Wednesday 05
January 2005 11:19 pm:
And the programmers were not smart enough to figure a way around this
because...why?
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Pete Turnbull wrote:
Well, my guess would be that it has no way to determine the EOF coming
over the line, as it can't just "check the file length", unless
there's
a ^Z there to indicate it. Thus, ASCII mode is needed. Dunno, I don't have quite such old versions
:-) My old copy of "The
MS-DOS Bible" says "every version" -- it means 3.30 and older --
disallows binary reads from devices. The same message is at 5254 in
MS-DOS 3.30 (ditto in PC-DOS 3.30), at 4CA0 in 3.21, and 4CCC in
IBM-DOS 4.01 (from a Compaq). I can't read my MS-DOS 2.10 and 2.11
disks on the hardware I have here. "Binary reads from a device are
not allowed" is the message at 8753 in DR-DOS 3.41.
The question I haven't seen answered yet is, "Well, why the hell
not???"