On 5/31/2021 3:36 AM, Steve Nickolas wrote:
On Mon, 31 May 2021, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel wrote:
+1
Personally, I always thought it would be best to have this "phantom
drive" feature disabled by default and allow the user to enable it if
they need. But that's just me. :)
Personally, I'd go with the opposite: behavior compatible with MS-DOS
3.3 ought to be the default because it's what most people would expect
from software that has as its primary compatibility target Compaq
MS-DOS 3.31 (not sure if that's still accurate, it's certainly been a
long time since I checked).
+1
Though at some point, the target for FreeDOS was changed to MS-DOS 6.0,
which included the changes of 5.0 (which were substantial) as well as
the memory management changes of DOS 6.0.
But to me, this whole thread is a non-issue. A proper written
application will check if it has two (physical) floppy drives and won't
give you and error. And if it doesn't, I doubt you get the DOS error
message regarding changing disks.
And if you are on the command line and select drive B: without having
one, oh well...
Ralf
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