Re: Version 4.1.4b No Longer Supports Dos
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Sep 22, 2010
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DOS IS NO LONGER SUPPORTED IN VERSION 4.1.4B.
There is no such version. Presumably you mean 4.0b4. In fact, DOS support was dropped a while ago in the 4.0 development.
I vehemently oppose this decision.
The basic reason for the decision is that there was no one willing/able to support DOS development.
Half my programs are written in Dos(.ex)
Some programs like animal.ex (in the Demos) do work in Version 4.0.b4
But a lot of my programs I get pallet() is not supported.
You might try using the DOS rescue file written by RDS. I think you can get it from the Archive when they released an updated langwar.
If get new version Microsoft Excel, my old .xls documents will work on the newer version.
However, if I save a .xls using the new version it my not work if I try to open it with the old version.
But I don't care because I'm not going to use the older version anymore because the new version works on both the old and newer .xls s.
Why can't Euphoria be like this? All files created with Version 3.1.1 should work with Version 4.0.b4.
I would call Euphoria 4.0.b4 poor program design.
One reason I can think of is that the people donating their time to developing euphoria have a lot fewer resources than Microsoft does when it develops Excel.
Matt
