7 Apr
2000
7 Apr
'00
6:39 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.
I wrote:
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.
"Sipke de Wal" <sipke(a)wxs.nl> wrote:
FCBS are still among us, like the rudimentary
footbones in a whale.
That only means that there are still some application developers who
are using them, not that there is any missing capability in file handles
that requires using FCBs.
Developers will probably continue to write software using FCBs as long as
there is a market for DOS and 16-bit-Windows applications.