Hi, On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Matej Horvat <[email protected]> wrote: > > I read this a few days ago and it might be worth mentioning here: > > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2013/07/10/10432879.aspx > > COPY /B FILE+,, produces an error in FreeCOM and so does COPY /B FILE+. > > I'm not sure whether this can be considered a bug or not, so that's why > I'm posting it here.
I doubt it's a bug. It appears moreso an accident, later relied upon because of lack of a separate TOUCH utility in MS-DOS. But DR-DOS has a separate TOUCH utility. And 4DOS has TOUCH built-in. Even FreeDOS has its own TOUCH utility (not counting Charles Dye's DOS variant, YATU). Even modern Windows doesn't support all the same old quirks as MS-DOS, e.g. "rem > blah.txt" won't work (though you can "type nul > blah.txt"). Can't remember for sure, but I think even copying a zero-byte file wouldn't work in DOS (but nowadays works in Windows!). Some things are just too obscure and quirky to rely upon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
