On Mon, 8 Jul 2013 16:29:14 +0200 Tom Ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de>
>> I may sound harsh, but being accused of ignorance by >> more ignorant is the only word of excuse I will utter. > this 'more' makes me think that you should prove your competence first I agree. The above quoted phrase was a late minute, unfortunate addition to my mail, that was meant jokingly - but now on reading it again I can see it does not reflect my true purpose, which has been to put an end to respective sarcasm and ire. Sincerely ! That "more" was meant to be "no less", as in, ok, we're all ignorants, let's live with the fact and do our best to learn from one another. Oh, well... I retire the phrase and beg your pardon. Then again : >> Let's forget /name calling/ ? If you agree, I'm your man Concerning the subject - locating the main env immediately above the small 3 K ? block of FreeCom's PSP, I honestly cannot discern whether you are seriously in want of explanations or only asking in jest. It is not complicated, at least from an ASM programmer's perspective where you can organise your modules at will. Or were you questioning the feasibility from the perspective of or a complex modular 'C' language program ? Then the detailed how is beyond my limited competence, I /suppose/ it might be harder, possibly requiring compiler-dependent variations and /some/ amount of 'glue' coded in ASM. Coding details are not to derail this mail list, you'll agree. We might dig down slightly deeper in private email, or on the developers' list if it's of interest to the community. >> not rocket science. But as they say, the devil is in the details .. > it looks like a real experienced programmer (you) has to show us > confused youngsters how it should be done! > I'm deep impressed. we have a black belt grandmaster on > visit. unfortunately too > busy to work, but we are so happy to receive good advice ;) I can take sarcasm still :=) > There are even other enhancements that could be made in the same domain, > an easy one is to give back the /initial/ environment Retiring this as already done by FreeCOM (yeah!) I have no idea why MS-Command doesn't , 4DOS neither. In particular, when one of those other Command's is the primary shell in MS-DOS 6+, the intial env block inherited from config.sys, is retained which causes incompatibilities with some older DOS programs. Bye ! -- Czerno ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
