7 Apr
2000
7 Apr
'00
5:33 p.m.
"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.