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Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 12:32:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jonathan Mini <j_mini@efn.org>
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Subject: Re: Report on DOSCMD
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On Mon, 5 May 1997, Jonathan Mini wrote:

Heh. This is what I get for writing email in a public lab -- I never
mention ed the point. Which was that those errors are "proper" -- they
should be there, since the service being probed isn't there. Unless doscmd
become some sort of super-emulator that emulates every strange sort of
protocol ever outdated or obseleted, (got I hope not, some of them were
nasty) we will always see errors like that.

> On Mon, 5 May 1997, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> 
> Interestingly enough, most of those "unknown interrupts" are the programs
> probing for services that doscmd does not support.
>   Querying for services in DOS is not a polite process, and the
> application expects an error like that so it assumes the service isn't
> avialable. =)
> 
> > Howdy,
> > The doscmd is great, I stood up all day testing all the DOS 5.0 programs
> > I could find. I'm attaching my report, if you guys need more detailed
> > debugging please tell me and I'll help as I can.
> > The OpenDOS source code is also available at:
> > http://www.caldera.co.uk/
> > 
> > best regards,
> > 
> > 	Pedro.
> > 
> 
> Jonathan Mini (j_mini@efn.org)
> 
> ... Desolation ... Despair ... Plastic Forks ...
> 

Jonathan Mini (j_mini@efn.org)

... Desolation ... Despair ... Plastic Forks ...