On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 21:46:29 +0100 (BST), Bart Oldeman wrote:
This string can't be removed -- it's part of RBIL:
--------D-2133FF----------------------------- INT 21 - FreeDOS - GET DOS-C/FREEDOS KERNEL RELEASE STRING POINTER AX = 33FFh Return: DX:AX -> string of the form "FreeDOS kernel version " KERNEL_VERSION_STRING " (Build " KERNEL_BUILD_STRING ") [" __DATE__ " " __TIME__ "]\n"
This must be your April Fool's day joke as the *final* RBIL release is 61 which does NOT contain such an entry!
I sent this to Ralf Brown at the time that Matthias Paul did a desperate call for updates because RBIL62 could be released any day (that was in April 2002),
On 1st of April? ;-)
seems I missed that release though.
Not only you - the whole DOS world missed it! :-(
I really object to breaking backwards compatibility here; we already had this function when Pat was still maintaining the kernel...
But since nobody knows of that function (because the information about it was never publicly released in the RBIL), its removal won't break anything! Or do I miss something?
Alas, the RBIL has not been updated for the last 4 years, and will never be anymore :-( As the above is NOT part of it, I think it can safely be removed, the more so as there isn't any info different than the one from function 30h - it's just in *textual* instead of *numeric* format.
But indeed. Adding strings is not good. So I won't add any new strings.
Great!
Lucho
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