Re: Dos vs CMD
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Dec 22, 2010
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Having just come to openEuphoria, I'm a little confused by this business about V4 not supporting DOS. Are we saying that V4 does not support stuff that only applies to a DOS environment, or are we saying that writing code to run in a "DOS Window" in XP (say) is deprecated as well? Or something else?
Am I safe to keep on developing code that runs in a cmd.exe "DOS window" in XP?
What DOS functionality has actually been dropped?
The DOS environment is no longer supported. This (off the top of my head) means stuff like the pixel drawing functions and DOS interrupts and direct hardware access.
DOS happens to be a command line environment by default, but that's a totally separate issue, and command line programming is absolutely supported in Windows (as in every other supported OS). Nearly all of the demos, for instance, are meant to be run from the command line, or in a console, at any rate.
Matt
