Hi Eli, > James Tabor is probably right. To do this right, we need a simple, > stable DOS (or MS-DOS emulator), with drivers for hard disks, USB flash > disks, USB hard disks, LANs, etc., which can read and write all > varieties of FAT and NTFS without damaging long file names and other > metadata.
You want Linux > Most applications, including some > that I personally find "indispensable", have never been written for any > operating systems but MS-DOS and Windows. So I still buy and build > Intel-Windows computers. On which you can run Linux for maintenance. Actually you can even run most of the apps on it (in Wine) better than on DOS ;-). > It would be stupid and short-sighted of Microsoft to make FreeDOS and > like systems go away, especially since they no longer sell or support > MS-DOS. They already documented that in their 2000 PDF about FAT: You can always use your FAT/... drivers for purposes like booting, firmware, diagnosis, maintenance... Their comment can even be read as "you can always include FAT driver is in your operating system" :-). http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/download/hardware/fatgen103.pdf Eric PS: I recommend DOS for running DOS games and for certain embedded system tasks. And for running DOS programs in general, without the overhead of running Windows or Linux or ReactOS. And in DOSEMU... ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
