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List:       freedos-dev
Subject:    Re: Re Unix commands
From:       Hasdi R Hashim <hasdi () umich ! edu>
Date:       1996-05-05 18:53:29
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On Sun, 5 May 1996, Jamey Kirby wrote:
> 
> An issue that I woul like to bring up is Windows. How close [roughly] is 
> DOS-C to being able to run Windows? This is an area that I may be able to 
> provide some help in. A few issues [off of the top of my head] come into 
> question regarding Windows and DOS-C; 1) How closly do DOS-C data structures 
> match those of MS-DOS [the List-of-lists and the SDA for example]? 2) does 
> DOS-C support the undocumented APIs required to to access these data 
> structures? 3)  Are all the other known 'undocumented' APIs supported?

That's going to be a toughie. I remember reading when people complained
that non-MS DOS cannot run Windows because Windows use undocumented
features of MS-DOS (it would just exit and say it is not compatible or
something). I think it was somewhere in the old issues of Dr Dobbs.

Hasdi

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