Hi Michael, >>>> I thought nothing usable besides the io.sys, >>>> sort.exe and sys.com sources from DOS 3.3 had turned up...
>>> No, even MS-DOS 6.0. >>> Also source for xcopy and so on. >> I said *usable*, as in compilable. > > I haven't tested to compile as I am to lazy to setup a build > environment, the older the software the harder it seams to get the build > environment. No idea if it needs some dependencies or so. > > However, it looks pretty complete, even emm386, dosshell etc. included. Why on earth would you want to compile 17 year old stolen source code if you can just steal the pre-compiled Windows of your flatmate today? ;-) Or for example download MS DOS from a warez page etc etc. Not my taste, of course... ;-). >> (Naturally, though, this knowledge would taint someone from >> doing equivalent code for FreeDOS, which is one reason I >> don't get into the kernel even if I understood how the heck >> that stuff worked in the *first* place.) Thanks for the warning :-)). Luckily most of the FreeDOS kernel is written in C... One of the things that make it complicated is that it sometimes has to follow long chains of things calling each other because it is documented that MS DOS does it the same way, so for example drivers only work if FreeDOS does the same complicated stuff... >>> Besides even io.sys would be great becuase it's the bible >>> as it's the whole kernel. >> No... that's MSDOS.SYS, which exists only as OBJ files. It sounds strange that the MSDOS.SYS sources would not be leaked while the EMM386 sources would be out there ;-). Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
